The perennial classic this intimate journal chronicling the Narnia authors experience of grief after his wifes death has consoled readers for half a century with its sensitive and eloquent magic (Hilary Mantel)An intimate, anguished account of a man grappling with the mysteries of faith and love ... Elegant and raw ... A powerful record of thought and emotion experienced in real time. Guardian Raw and modern ... This unsentimental, even bracing, account of one mans dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and consoling ... A contemporary classic. ObserverA source of great consolation ... Lewis deploys his genius for vivid imagery ... It is a relief for the reader to find that he or she is not alone in the intense loneliness or feelings of anguish that bereavement brings. Henry Marsh, The TimesTestimony from a sensitive and eloquent witness [on] The Human Condition. It offers an interrogation of experience and a glimmer of hardwon hope. It allows one bewildered mind to reach out to another. Death is no barrier to that. Hilary MantelHere, sorrow and despair, the tiredness and numbness and petulance and nightmarishness of grief, all have their full, uncontrolled, experienced force ... [Such] radical openness ... Brilliant. Francis SpuffordNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.Narnia author C.S. Lewis had been married to his wife for four blissful years. When she died of cancer, he found himself alone, inconsolable in his grief. In this intimate journal, he...

Binding: Paperback;64 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: HRCV; Weight: 180 g; Dimensions: 125 x 196 x 6

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