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When You Have to Sell the Family Home — from The Hard Days Collection

The Hard Days Collection

When You Have to Sell the Family Home

Getting Through the Loss of the House That Held Your Life

by William “Billy” Brown

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About the book

A quiet reckoning, written plainly

A house is never just a building, and losing the one that held years — sometimes decades — of your actual family life deserves its own honest grief, separate from the marriage itself. A short, honest guide to that specific loss.

What readers will find inside

The decision to sell. Walking through the emptied rooms one last time. Clearing out decades of accumulated life. And what the house remains to you even once someone else owns it. Written plainly, for a loss that gets treated as paperwork and is anything but.

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Chapter One

From the opening pages

A house is never just a building. Losing the one that held years — sometimes decades — of your actual family life deserves its own honest grief, separate from the grief of the marriage ending.

This short book covers the decision to sell, walking through the emptied rooms one last time, clearing out decades of accumulated life, and what the house remains to you even once someone else owns it.

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About the author

William “Billy” Brown

William “Billy” Brown
Billy, at home in Scotland

Billy is a Scottish engineer, author and musician who spent more than thirty years working around the world before he ever thought of himself as a writer.

He writes from lived experience rather than theory — about work, love, distance, and the quieter lessons a working life hands over.