A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. '
A classic of the genre, a literary answer to the pain of loss.'
Robert McCrum.
Invaluable as an insight into the grieving process just as much as it is as an exploration of religious doubt, A Grief Observed will continue to offer its consoling insights to a huge range of readers, as it has for over fifty years.
Painfully honest in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings, this is a book that details his paralysing grief, bewilderment and sense of loss in simple and moving prose.
A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage