A powerful parenting journey through adversity and healing
From one of our most powerful writers, a classic work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.
'Her prose is a thing of beauty' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times
'Where the book is most successful - and most poignant - is in the viciously honest picture Didion draws of a lonely, encroaching old age . . . your heart breaks for her increasing and incurable frailty' Julie Myerson, Observer
Reviews for 'A Year of Magical Thinking':
'It is the most awesome performance of both participating in, and watching, an event. Even though Didion does not allow herself to break down, only a terribly controlled reader will resist doing the same.' John Freeman, Independent
'Ultimately, and unexpectedly for a book about illness and death, this is a wonderfully life affirming book.' Lisa O'Kelly, Observer
'Searing, informative and affecting. Don't leave life without it.' Financial Times
'This is a beautiful and devastating book by one of the finest writers we have. Didion has always been a precise, humane and meticulously truthful writer, but on the subject of death she becomes essential.' Zadie Smith