Hannah Richell on Surviving the Worst Day of Her Life & Finding Love Again
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No, not really. But look, it's Tuesday and it's supposed to rain again. And you still have sand. If I wash it now, I'll have to clean it up again soon. And if I just wait, it'll be autumn soon. And in the dark, no one even notices the difference.
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This is an Our Media podcast. Like a mantra for me as I went through my grief was it hurts exactly as much as it was worth. So when it feels really heavy and really painful, and it still can do some days, I just remember that I'm honouring that. You know, it's the love, and that's why it hurts. The love is still there.
Marie Claire presents You're Gonna Want to Hear This. Welcome back to You're Gonna Want to Hear This, a Marie Claire podcast. I'm your host, Georgie McCourt. Now, back in 2014, Hannah Ritchell's life changed forever. The best-selling author and mother of two lost her husband, Matt, very suddenly when he drowned in Tamarama Beach, leaving her to navigate overwhelming grief while raising two young children and trying to make sense of a future that she never pictured. For years, Hannah did what so many people do after unimaginable loss, and that is she kept going. She raised her children, she continued writing fiction novels, and slowly rebuilt a life. But privately, she was also going through something else, and that is the story of grief as she lived it.
Twelve years later, those pages have become her first memoir, An Ocean and a Day. It's an intimate, honest reflection on love and loss, motherhood, and what it really means to move forward. Not by just leaving grief behind, but by learning to carry it, because you do carry grief throughout your entire life. In this conversation, Hannah shares what it's like to revisit the darkest chapter of her life and why she waited a decade to tell this story, but also the unexpected hope that she has found along the way. This is Hannah Ritchell, and you're going to want to hear this. Hannah, I want to go back to 2014, which was 12 years ago now. Your life changed forever. You were 39 years old. Your children were three and six.
And I have two children who are 12 and 13. So I know how full on those days are. Now, two police officers arrived at your door. Yeah. Some people listening will know your story, but for those who don't, tell me what unfolded that day.
Sure. So that day, it was a very ordinary Wednesday in July. It was the school holidays. It was a beautifully sunny day, one of those sort of crisp Sydney winter days. And my husband, Matt, and I had had a coffee that morning. He had decided that he was going to work out of the office. He'd been away on a business trip and recently come back. And he just said, I'm going to do things a bit different today. So he decided to work in a cafe on a business strategy. And then he was going to meet a a work contact down at a beach uh in sydney and they were going to have what they were calling a board meeting on their surfboards and talk shop i've never heard that i'm sure that's quite like yeah because you said to him but i love it yeah it's a good one right yeah
So that was sort of his plan for the day. My day was getting the kids to their various spots. And then I was going to go and work on my third novel because I was working as a novelist and was under contract to produce two novels for my publisher. So... We had a really sort of brief but lovely morning together, went our separate ways. And then around lunchtime, my phone started ringing and I was wrestling with my novel, not having a particularly good time with it and looked down and didn't recognise the phone number.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–12:07
2
How did Hannah first learn Matt had died and what happened when the police arrived at her home?
12:07–47:44
3
How did Hannah decide when and how to tell her young children about their father's death?
47:44–57:56
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Why did Hannah begin writing seven days after the accident and what did those first pages of grief feel like?
57:56–1:01:02
Speakers
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