![]() When she died of cancer, he found himself alone, inconsolable in his grief. Lewis had been married to his wife for four blissful years. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ‘Here, sorrow and despair, the tiredness and numbness and petulance and nightmarishness of grief, all have their full, uncontrolled, experienced force … radical openness … Brilliant.’ Francis Spufford ![]() Death is no barrier to that.’ Hilary Mantel It allows one bewildered mind to reach out to another. ![]() It offers an interrogation of experience and a glimmer of hardwon hope. ‘Testimony from a sensitive and eloquent witness ‘The Human Condition’. ‘A 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 Times ‘Raw and modern … This unsentimental, even bracing, account of one man’s dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and consoling … A contemporary classic.’ Observer ![]() ‘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 The perennial classic: this intimate journal chronicling the Narnia author’s experience of grief after his wife’s death has consoled readers for half a century with its ‘ sensitive and eloquent’ magic (Hilary Mantel) ![]()
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