IT’S OK TO CRY
Finding hope in infertility and miscarriage
By Malcolm & Nick Cameron. Christian Focus. 207 pages.
ISBN 1 84550 077 6
This book is a personal testimony of one couple’s struggle with the pain of infertility and also having a miscarriage.
The book is written mostly by Nick (the wife) and chronicles the rollercoaster of her emotions through her experiences. She tells how people at church have helped or not and of the support she received from two successive pastors. The style is light and easy to read.
This book may help people going through similar experiences, although there is no resolution of the hurt and it won’t provide any in-depth study on the subject. I cannot speak from personal experience as I have not suffered in these ways, but I think its use would be on the level of someone going through this pain realising that they are not the only one to feel this way and, as the title suggests, ‘it’s OK to cry’. Her theology is charismatic and so I wouldn’t agree with some of her interpretation of the Bible, but there are some useful references.
Heather Tinker,
working, among other things, as a counsellor at St. John’s Newland, Hull
