A "Grief Observed" comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage.

Painfully honest in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings, this is a book that details his paralysing grief, bewilderment and sense of loss in simple and moving prose.

The perennial classic: this intimate journal chronicling the Narnia author’s experience of grief after his wife’s death has consoled readers for half a century with its ‘sensitive and eloquent’ magic (Hilary Mantel)