Grief (novel) The stages are denial, anger, depression, and acceptance. The narrator, as well as other characters in the story, slowly passes through these stages in trying to deal with death. During the story, the theme of dealing with grief overcomes the narrator, the landlord and Frank. Premature death grief results from the guilt that they try to deal with because of the AIDS epidemic. Many of their friends, for example one named Nick is overcome by the disease. When told about his HIV, Nick “looked like a deer caught in a car’s headlights for weeks... he even chased the doctor who
Smiling at Grief archive programme, released on CD in 1997 on MSI Records with five bonus tracks recorded prior to the main sessions at the band's rehearsal venue, Burghfield Mill, Reading. This CD is now out-of-print. "Smiling at Grief" is the first of the Twelfth Night "definitive releases" by Festival Music to be released in March 2009 Disc One – Smiling at Grief' Tracks 1-9 are the original "Smiling at Grief" cassette album, recorded at Woodcray Manor Farm Studios, Berkshire, November 1981. Tracks 10-14 were bonus tracks first released on the 1997 MSI CD reissue. These were recorded at Burghfield Mill, Reading, in