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Undying: A Love Story

Michel Faber

How can you say goodbye to the love of your life?

In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic and candid, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is like to have to say goodbye.

All I can do, in what remains of my brief time,
is mention, to whoever cares to listen,
that a woman once existed, who was kind
and beautiful and brave, and I will not forget
how the world was altered, beyond recognition,
when we met.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publish Date: Jul 7th, 2016
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Main - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.60in - 0.70in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9781782118541
  • Categories: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Faber, Michel: - Michel Faber has written nine books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C, Clarke Award and won the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year, and most recently Undying, his first poetry collection. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.

Praise for this book

A painful little treasure--Christopher Brookmyre
Beautiful and deeply moving . . . a story of courage and the persistence of hope even in the darkest times--Allan Massie "Scotsman "
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
I was touched by the spirit of these poems, their vulnerably sober and steady way of addressing grief--Christopher Reid
Searing yet beautiful--Richard Holloway
Reflecting on life and love and death . . . this is a very powerful collection . . . incredibly rich--Cathy Rentzenbrink "Monocle "
Heart-breaking, tender, intimate, harrowing . . . this is a stunning testimony to love--Mary Costello