Widowed father's book 'It's Not Raining, Daddy, It's Happy' rockets to top of Amazon bestseller lists Benjamin Brooks-Dutton's wife Desreen was killed by a car in Nov 2012 The London couple were leaving a friend's house with son Jackson, two Ben started a blog, Life As A Widower, as a way of dealing with his grief His blog has had over 1m hits and he has 3,500 Twitter followers His book, published in May, is now available on Amazon pre-order now Has already rocketed to top of Movers & Shakers list The list tracks the biggest gainers in sales over the last 24 hours Also went to number one in 'Health, Family & Lifestyle', 'Families & Parents', 'Death & Bereavement' categories It's Not Raining, Daddy, It's Happy (Hodder & Stoughton, £16.99) A young widowed father whose wife was killed by a car as the couple were out walking with their two-year-old son has written a book as a way of coping with his grief, and it has already rocketed to the top of several Amazon charts some four months before even being published. Benjamin Brooks-Dutton's beloved wife Desreen was knocked down and killed on 10 November 2012 in their hometown of London. Suddenly the 33-year-old was a single father attempting to raise his son Jackson while dealing with the horrific grief of losing his wife and best friend. Ben started writing a blog, Life As A Widower, as a way of coping with what had happened, hoping to better understand the situation he was in and help others who might find themselves in similar circumstances. Ben and his wife Desreen on their wedding day in 2011 His stark honesty and beautiful way with words saw the blog soar in popularity; it has had over one million hits, gained 6,000 Facebook likes, 3,500 Twitter followers and been nominated for the 2014 UK Blog Awards. Hodder & Stoughton then offered him a book deal. Ben continued to blog while writing the book - often about the writing process itself, but chiefly stories about his life with his remarkable young son - and the book is now available for pre-order on Amazon for publication in May. The book is titled It's Not Raining, Daddy, It's Happy, after a quotation from Jackson, and Ben and Desreen's son appears on the front cover. Ben and Desreen's son Jackson on the cover of his father's book, It's Not Raining, Daddy, It's Happy Posting on Facebook yesterday, Ben wrote: 'Just seen the book is no.1 in the Amazon Movers & Shakers chart, which tracks the biggest gainers in sales rank over the past 24 hrs. Mad. The book also went to number one in several other new release sub-categories, including Health, Family & Lifestyle, Families & Parents, and Death & Bereavement. Speaking to MailOnline, Ben said: 'It has been very touching to witness the response to my book this week. 'There was a time soon after my wife died when I didn't think that anyone wanted to hear a widowed man share his grief. 'I didn't have anyone around who really understood what I was going through; I had no access to people living through similar tragedies. And I couldn't have imagined that launching a blog as a means of finding support for myself would turn out to be of support to so many other people too. 'Since then I been proven wrong: my blog has had a million hits and I've written a book that will be published in May. While my blog posts tend to capture momentary or episodic observations about grief - and serve as extracts from a rather public diary - my book captures an entire year of live grief, documented as it happened, and set against a backdrop of the happy, fun and loving life my little family enjoyed before its very linchpin was killed. 'In some ways getting our story down on paper is the most emotionally challenging thing I've ever done; in others the most emotionally rewarding. 'Nothing else I could have done in response to my wife's death would have forced me to chronicle the incredible pain of losing her the way that writing the book has. And yet, equally, nothing else would have enabled me to so enthusiastically detail the wonderful, joyful and often hilarious times we spent together over the course of the eight years since we first met. Ben's blog, Life As A Widower, which was the seed from which his new book grew It's Not Raining, Daddy, It's Happy, is published on 8 May by Hodder & Stoughton and is available for pre-order on Amazon now, priced £16.99. Vote for Life As A Widoer in the 2014 UK Blog Awards here.