In Loving Memory
$53.66
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
19 July 2004
Summary
It’s an impossibly difficult and painful time; someone you love has just died and you have very quickly to choose an appropriate and moving reading for the funeral. In an increasingly secular age, people often look for a poem or piece of prose which will celebrate the life of the person who has just died, and, as well as inspiring religious poems, Sally Emerson’s anthology includes secular words of comfort, celebration and mourning. This is also an anthology in its own right, and offers insig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316725996 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316725994 |
| Author: | Sally Emerson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 134mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
The most comprehensive of these anthologies perceptively looks two ways at once. As well as offering a wide-ranging selection of readings, Sally Emerson’s In Loving Memory offers a whole section of hymns, prayers and readings - presumably in recognition of the fact that even in this secular age people’s hearts move to ancient blood-rhythms, suspecting that “on the stroke of midnight God shall win”. - Bel Mooney, The Times
About The Author
Sally Emerson
Sally Emerson is the author of several novels, including FIRECHILD, SEPARATION, SECOND SIGHT, LISTENERS, HEAT and BROKEN BODIES. She has written and worked for various publications, including the Sunday Times and Washington Post.
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