In a series of twenty-four letters Michael Mayne makes an offering to his grandchildren of all that has inspired him in literature, music and art. It is, in Ronald Blythe’s words ‘an inventory of his joy’.

Written in a candid autobiographical fashion, the book is a passionate plea to the reader to pass through their one earthly life with a trained and watching eye.

This Sunrise of Wonder is a confession of how he came to unify his outer and inner worlds, the ordinariness and yet the extraordinariness of everything...