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 this edition features responses from authors like Hilary Mantel, Francis Spufford, Rowan Williams, Jenna Bailey.

Cosmia Festival 2020: It's the end of the world as we know it.Listen Together - Ideal for Reading Groups.International Women's Day 2023 - Collectively we can all #EmbraceEquity.Read Together - Ideal for Reading Groups.Business and Intellectual Property collection.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.A 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. Brilliant.' Francis Spufford***No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.Narnia author C.S. Death is no barrier to that.' Hilary Mantel'Here, sorrow and despair, the tiredness and numbness and petulance and nightmarishness of grief, all have their full, uncontrolled, experienced force. It allows one bewildered mind to reach out to another. It offers an interrogation of experience and a glimmer of hardwon hope. 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'Testimony from a sensitive and eloquent witness 'The Human Condition'. A contemporary classic.' Observer'A source of great consolation. A powerful record of thought and emotion experienced in real time.' Guardian 'Raw and modern.

A grief observed readers edition