He grapples with a crisis of religious faith, navigating hope, rage, despair, and love - but eventually regains his bearings, finding his way back to life.Ī luminous modern classic, A Grief Observed has offered solace to countless readers for decades. In this intimate journal, he chronicles the aftermath of the bereavement and mourning with blazing honesty. 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. 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'. 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 Lewis deploys his genius for vivid imagery. This unsentimental, even bracing, account of one man's dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and consoling. A powerful record of thought and emotion experienced in real time.' Guardian 'An intimate, anguished account of a man grappling with the mysteries of faith and love.

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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