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No Time to Say Goodbye – Living on after His Death

About the profound loss, which led the author of ‘The Lobster Womento Maine

Beatrix Gerstberger was six months pregnant when her partner died. Gabriel Grüner, a journalist for the magazine stern, was shot and killed in Kosovo three days after the war had ended. In order to come to terms with the unimaginable, she took her young son to the coast of Maine. There she wrote her bestselling memoir ‘No Time to Say Goodbye’, which not only recounts her own journey back to life but also tells the stories of seven other young widows she met and interviewed.

  • The moving story of Beatrix Gerstberger’s untimely loss of her partner and the fates of other young widows
  • Her time in Maine inspired her international bestseller ‘The Lobster Women’ and the sequel ‘The Lobster Years‘
Genre: Biography / Memoir, Non-Fiction

Beatrix Gerstberger

Beatrix Gerstberger, born in 1964, is a freelance author for various magazines. Since first publishing her memoir about the untimely death of her partner, she has written further novels and become an internationally acclaimed author.


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176 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-35289-5
Product features: First published in 2003
First published 2026