Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Letters on Hope, Death and Learning to Live
$33.45
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
25 May 2021
Summary
‘Claire’s honest, raw, authentic diaries will be a source of comfort to many’ - Miranda Hart
At the age of 54 Claire Gilbert was diagnosed with myeloma, an incurable cancer of the blood. The prognoses ranged from surviving only a few months to living for several decades, with no guarantee of which outcome was to be hers. It was a shocking diagnosis into uncertainty, or rather, into only one certainty: death. But Claire discovered that facing her own mortality was liberating.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529359725 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529359724 |
| Author: | Claire Gilbert |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Hodder Faith |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 25 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 144mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
Diagnosed with myeloma aged 54, and ‘given’ maybe months, maybe decades to live, Gilbert began writing to people dear to her, charting the course of her diagnosis and treatment, with honesty, gratitude, humour, even elation. Shining through the darkness of her letters there are moments of epiphany, comfort and inspiration; there are poems and pedicures, art and acupuncture, lipstick and Larkin, her faith and her partner, Sean. ‘Walk with me,’ she invites, and we are honoured to do so. * Saga *
intense, evocative and moving * Irish Times Weekend *
The story that Gilbert tells is an honest one, full of pain, fear and bitter truth * Irish Examiner *
If you are interested in reflections on life and death from someone who has stood in the wrinkle of time where the two almost touch, it’s a great read … a warm, witty, harrowing, captivating contemplation of disease, weakness, mortality and life … The writing is literary, elegant and very beautiful, the book well-paced and finely balanced … leavened with humorous observations and joyful delight. * Christianity Magazine *
Claire Gilbert’s Miles to go Before I Sleep is a wonderful book…I was moved. – JOHN DEMPSTER * The Inverness Courier *
‘This is not a book about dying, but, rather, a book about how facing death enables us truly to live.’ * The Church Times *
‘Gilbert holds nothing back…[and] has an eye for small detail…What fills the book is the undoubted need for human companionship, love, support and prayers from her ‘community of kindness’.’ * The Pastoral Review *
About The Author
Claire Gilbert
Claire grew up in London, of Jewish, Scots, Spanish and English heritage. She lost her parents and all save one of her grandparents to cancer. She writes and speaks on ethics in public life, medicine and the environment as a moral philosopher and theologian and now from personal experience. She spent one summer ingloriously as a stand up comedian. She lives in London and Hastings with her partner Sean.
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