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A Grief Observed
  • ISBN: 9780571290680
  • Pages: 64
  • Publisher: Faber
  • Binding: Paperback

A Grief Observed

C. S. Lewis
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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 chronicles the aftermath of the bereavement and mourning with blazing honesty. 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.



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‘Everything he wrote was total bilge. Apart, that is to say, from A Grief Observed. The man was a genius when it came to describing grief. I have to give him that. If you are coming to terms with a...

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