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Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking
Staring at Lakes A Memoir of Love Melancholy and Magical Thinking Author:Michael Harding Throughout his life Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, the pervading sense of darkness and unease never left. 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 wit... more »h openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Lei trim with his artist wife, the depression which 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.« less