When All That's Left of Me Is Love

A Daughter's Story of Letting Go

By: Linda Campanella

Narrated by: Zura Johnson

The award-winning memoir When All That's Left of Me Is Love is poignant and powerful. Linda Campanella provides an intimate look inside her family and her heart as she relives the joy-filled year and long good-bye leading to her terminally ill mother's death. In the process, she comes to terms with the permanence of her loss and finds comfort in profound gratitude for many unexpected gifts.

At once heart-wrenching and heartwarming, When All That's Left of Me Is Love is about living fully and purposefully after learning someone very dear to us will be gone too soon. Listeners can expect to be touched deeply by one woman's example of grace and courage and one family's determination to embrace life while awaiting death.

The audiobook itself is full of life. It is a moving love story, a spiritual journey, a poetry lesson, even a case for happy hour. It reminds us all to cherish loving relationships and each new day. Intensely personal, its themes - love, family, faith, courage, grief - are universal.

Campanella's beautiful story of bonds that do not break and love that never dies will inspire not only those who face or fear death, but also those who love and embrace life.

When All That's Left of Me Is Love was a 2013 Indie Excellence Book Awards finalist and has won multiple other awards, including the 2012 Nautilus Silver Award, 2012 Living Now Book Award gold medal, 2012 Readers' Favorite silver medal, 2011 Reader Views Literary Award first-place honor in two categories, and the Life Journeys Award for best memoir or bography.

©2017 Linda Campanella (P)2018 Linda Campanella

Quite similar to my journey

I appreciated the entire story in its completeness. Quite similar to my journey although 8 months later my father died of "a broken heart" in his sleep. Both deaths were equally heartbreaking.

I Wanted To Love This

Coming from a place of losing my last parent and being given a stage 2 IDC breast caner diagnosis in the same year - I REALLY REALLY wanted to connect and love this story. I have 4 grown children - my own fairytale life - a husband that I adore … very similar to Nan. But by Chapter 5 I couldn’t get into this story. I don’t know if it’s the difference between reading it and listening to it on audiobook but it felt dry - and the decision to base a lot of it on email messages felt off. My heart goes out to the author but this was a miss for me.

How real this story is to those who've lost our Moms.

How true it is to others. its relatable and down to earth, genuine, true and real.