In her latest book, No Voice is Ever Wholly Lost, Louise J. Kaplan has demonstrated, once again, that she has mastered the fine art of bringing psychoanalytically informed topics to a wide-ranging audience. This volume deals with the problems of mourning and the attempts to preserve or restore ‘the inner dialogue’ with the lost object. She quite com passionately addresses the near-impossible tasks that confront both parents and children who have to bear the trauma associated with an untimely death of a loved one. Dr Kaplan draws on a broad base of knowledge, citing detailed examples from the lives of everyday people,