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Sleeping Letters - Marie-Elsa R. Bragg

Sleeping Letters

On Grief, Loss, Healing and Faith
Buch | Softcover
128 Seiten
2024
Vintage (Verlag)
978-1-5299-2479-4 (ISBN)
CHF 19,90 inkl. MwSt
A unique, intimate and beautiful exploration of grief, loss, healing and faith

'This is a beautiful book, a remarkable, cadenced recollection of how grief lives in the body. It is poetry as a kind of dance. You have to read it' EDMUND DE WAAL

We sat in the kitchen across the small wooden table from each other. She cried like banks bursting, then silence; like winds blowing through her shoulders, chest bouncing, then long shallow breaths. She ruptured and I watched, still, emotionless. 'You must stop crying.'

When Marie-Elsa was just six years old, her mother took her own life. Now, many years later, she returns to that night. Going back to that moment, inhabiting this defining tragedy, allows for an exploration of the grief but also brings healing.

Written partly as a series of unsent letters to both her mother and father, Sleeping Letters is a way of connecting to past family, an attempt to reconcile with loss, as well as a radical exploration of Marie-Elsa’s own faith. It is an unforgettable book, with a luminous sense of a daughter’s loss.

With a Foreword by Rowan Williams

‘Truly remarkable... This book carries its readers to a place where inhibitions and fears about loss and death give way to something more hopeful and, in their own way, real’ Daily Telegraph

Marie-Elsa Roche Bragg is half French, half Cumbrian and was brought up in London. She studied Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford, and trained for the Priesthood at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She is a Priest in the diocese of London, an Ignatian spiritual director, a therapist and a Duty Chaplain of Westminster Abbey. Her first novel, Towards Mellbreak, was published in 2017.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 197 mm
Gewicht 98 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 1-5299-2479-0 / 1529924790
ISBN-13 978-1-5299-2479-4 / 9781529924794
Zustand Neuware
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