6 d. ago ‘My sadness is not a burden’: author Yiyun Li on the suicide of both her sons

As her memoir of losing her sons is published, the author talks about radical acceptance and how writing fiction helped her to prepare for tragedyAs the novelist Yiyun Li often observes, there is no good way to state the facts of her life and yet they are inescapable: she had two sons, and both died by suicide. After her elder son Vincent died in 2017, at the age of 16, Li wrote a novel for him. Where Reasons End is a conversation, sometimes an argument, between a mother and her dead son, and it is a work of fiction that doesn’t feel fictional at all, because it’s also an encounter between a writer in mourning and the son she can still conjure up on the page. “With Vincent’s book there was that joy of meeting him again in the book, hearing him, seeing him, it was like he was alive,” she says. The book had 16 chapters, one for each year of his life, and Li felt she could have spent the rest of her life writing it, and also that she could not linger.When her younger son James die...

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1 week ago Virginia Giuffre's final days 'plagued by fear and distress' over Prince Andrew payout

Prince Andrew's sex abuse accuser, Virginia Giuffre, died at her farm in Western Australia last month, with friends saying she was 'extremely distressed' in the run up to her tragic death

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1 week ago Virginia Giuffre 'extremely distressed' about Prince Andrew payout before taking her own life

Prince Andrew's sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre feared her fortune could be taken after another victim of the royal’s paedophile pal, Jeffrey Epstein, sued her

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2 w. ago Sister Wives airs moment Meri Brown learned about Garrison’s death while filming

Garrison died by suicide last year at the age of 25

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3 w. ago ‘It could have been any of us’: Second Prince Andrew accuser pays tribute to Virginia Giuffre after suicide

Johanna Sjoberg claimed she was groped by the Duke of York two decades ago after being introduced by Jeffrey Epstein

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew accuser says 'It could have been any of us' to Virginia Giuffre's suicide

Johanna Sjoberg, who claimed in court documents that she was groped by Prince Andrew after being introduced by Jeffrey Epstein, has broken her silence to mourn the death of Virginia Giuffre

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3 w. ago Virginia Guiffre’s dad insists she didn’t die by suicide, claims someone ‘got to’ her

Virginia Giuffre was 41 when she died in Neergabby, Australia

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3 w. ago Virginia Giuffre's 'heartbreak as estranged children not allowed to see her before death'

It was announced last week that campaigner Virginia Giuffre - who made headlines after accusing Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, which he's denied - had died at the age of 41

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3 w. ago Virginia Giuffre's dad thinks 'someone got to' Prince Andrew sex accuser before death

Sky Roberts said he was devastated by the news of his daughter's death and insisted foul play may have been involved. “For them to say that she committed suicide, there's no way that she did. Somebody got to her," he said.

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3 w. ago Virginia Giuffre's final words released by family saying 'battle lines are drawn'

The family of Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, have released a handwritten note she penned shortly before her suspected suicide

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3 w. ago Madison Beer candidly opens up about her suicide attempt after shocking nude photo leak at age 14

Beer was only 14 years old when her nudes were leaked -  but now that she's 26 years old, she has candidly opened up about her experiences.

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew 'must come clean' after his sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre killed herself, her lawyer says

Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, David Boies, said the Prince had to take responsibility and even went on to request King Charles to intervene.

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3 w. ago Virginia Giuffre: everything we know about her life and death

The former activist died by suicide at the age of 41

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew's 'delusional' royal comeback dreams 'firmly closed' after Virginia Giuffre death

Virginia Giuffre, 41, tragically died by suicide in Western Australia just a few years after she banked a reported £12million from Prince Andrew to settle a civil case against him

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3 w. ago Donald Trump says death of Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre is 'horrible'

The 41-year-old, who settled a sexual assault lawsuit against the Duke of York, died on Friday in Australia

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew has 'no way back' into royal life after sex abuse victim Virginia Giuffre killed herself

Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein as a teen, died by suicide in Western Australia last week after making a series of troubling Instagram posts.

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3 w. ago Virginia Giuffre's death sparks 'ugly fight' over Prince Andrew's £12m pay out

Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide on Friday, was trafficked for sex as a teenager by Jeffrey Epstein and was reportedly paid £12million by Prince Andrew to settle her civil sexual abuse case against him.

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew is seen for the first time since accuser Virginia Guiffre's suicide

Andrew, 65, and the Duchess of York, known fondly as Fergie, appeared solemn as they drove out of the gates of their home in Windsor -

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew seen for first time since death of sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre

The Duke of York - who vehemently denies all wrong doing - was pictured inside a vehicle at Royal Lodge with Sarah Ferguson. at 2.30pm this afternoon - just a day after Ms Giuffre died by suicide

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3 w. ago Legal battle for Virginia Giuffre's Prince Andrew millions could spark ugly 'tug

Virginia Giuffre, 41, died by suicide in Western Australia a few years after she pocketed a reported £12million from Prince Andrew to settle a civil case against him

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