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Photos: Gunwalloe Church, Cornwall 2008 © Lizzie Ridout
A new collection. Suitably morbid I'd agree. But how unbelievably poignant: at the passing of your husband or wife, to leave space on the headstone for your own time. The blank-paged book is particularly heart-wrenching.