manifestation of grief

'The manifestations of grief can be confounding to us all, and I can't pretend to fully understand why your mother's distress has taken such idiosyncratic forms.

Tangentially, the exhibition traces the public manifestations of grief that followed such high-profile events as the Happy Land Social Club fire and the death of Princess Diana.

Deftly interweaving the varying manifestations of grief and absence in these diverse lives, she illuminates the ways people devise - or stumble across - their strategies for maintaining emotional equilibrium.

The physical manifestations of grief - the feeling of a rock caught in the throat, the numbness in the limbs, the sense of drowning, the obsessive thoughts, the insomnia, the holes in one's memory - also pass.