Give Sorrow Words is a fine and, above all, dignified account of a child psychotherapist's work with a dying child in a hospital context. It is also at times a very painful book to read, involving facing and thinking about this incomprehensible outrage against the natural order. It is almost as if the organization of the book reflects the complex and different levels at which Judd was able to work. The raw and honest account of her involvement with a particular child is placed in the wider context of the difficult and sensitive ethical, medical, social and psychological issues that arise when working with dying children.

The experiential heart of the book lies in the second part and is the author's account of her work over a three-month period with seven and a half-year-old Robert, who was admitted to hospital suffering from acute myeloblastic leukaemia, a form of