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A Scattering and Anniversary

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd
  • 19.7 x 13.2 x 0.6 cm

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This edition brings together A Scattering and Anniversary into a single book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. A Scattering was first published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning the Costa Book of the Year Award. This moving and fiercely self-reflective collection is divided into four poetic sequences. The first was written during a holiday a few months before Gane's death with the knowledge that the end was approaching; the second recalls her last courageous weeks, spent in a hospice in London; the third continues the exploration of bereavement from a variety of perspectives; and the fourth addresses her directly, celebrating her life, personality and achievements.

Pairing A Scattering for the first time with Anniversary, which was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Gane's death, this volume brings Reid into dialogue, again, with the wife he loved. A moving exploration of the stages of grief and how the 'weighty emptinesses' that remain after bereavement change us, A Scattering andAnniversary show us what it means to love, lose and - forever changed - continue on.

  • Title

    A Scattering and Anniversary

  • Author

    Christopher Reid

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Faber and Faber Ltd

  • Published

    August 2019

  • Weight

    119g

  • Dimensions

    19.7 x 13.2 x 0.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780571354535

  • ISBN-10

    057135453X

  • Eden Code

    7319632

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