Good Grief is a 2004 novel by the New York Times bestselling author Lolly Winston.

[1] Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow-a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow.

Self-medicating with ice cream for breakfast, breaking down at the supermarket, and showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny slippers-soon she's not only lost her husband, but her job, house...and waistline.

But starting over has its hurdles; soon she's involved with a thirteen-year-old who has a fascination with fire, and a handsome actor who inspires a range of feelings she can't cope with-yet.

In her New York Times review, Janet Maslin wrote that Holly Winston treats matters of life and death with incongruous lightness and insistent lovability, capably rendered and extremely reader-friendly.