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Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness – through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained.
When he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately, he found a way out of the dark, by accepting the fragility of love and the importance of now.
Staring at Lakes started out as a book about depression. And then became a story about growing old, the essence of love and marriage – and sitting in cars, staring at lakes.
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When Michael Harding was 58, he became physically ill. In the face of his own mortality, the sense of emptiness which had shadowed him throughout his life now manifested itself with brute force. He found himself in the grip of a deep, paralysing depression. Here, in his candid memoir, he talks openly about his journey through illness, middle-age and marriage.
| Weight | 0.226 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 13.1 × 2.1 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 310 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 828.9209 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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