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Undying: A Love Story

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Undying: A Love Story by Michel Faber

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By Michel Faber

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‘Michel Faber addressed these love poems to his wife after her death. They are lucid, tender and wise, and they pulse with this fine writer’s intelligence’ – Ian McEwan

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01 Oct 2018

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A very difficult book to comment on – so many reactions generated in the reader. Very powerful emotions expressed by the poet and a rawness of grief that made parts really difficult to read. Charting the illness, treatment and death of his wife, this is a no-holds-barred examination of death, dying and bereavement. This collection is not for the faint hearted and there were some poems that most could not read. Possibly if one has been faced with the dying and death of a loved one it would be easier to relate to the poems here but overall they are difficult to digest. An important read, however, in terms of honesty of approach to the illness and death of his wife. The foreword explains the context of the poems well and helps the reader to be more open to the difficult messages in some of the poems. I am pleased to have read it.

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