This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

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This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

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Regular listeners of Literary Friction, the podcast that Bright co-hosts, will be familiar with her intelligent yet deeply felt style. A lover of art as well as literature, she uses the works of Louise Bourgeois and Sigmund Freud to trace her story of healing, which takes place in New York City, Cornwall, Margate and on the Italian island of Stromboli. The parts about her father, who just before his diagnosis had forgotten his friends’ names but recalled the lyrics of the hot cross bun song, are anchored in west London, where Bright grew up. As a discrete section, her portrayal of his death, during the Covid-19 pandemic, is immensely poignant. It becomes even more so following Bright’s vivid descriptions of her reclamation of life. “My father died and I kept on living,” she writes, “astonished by how simple it was to do.” Although Sarah had devoted her professional life to the study of death and how we grieve, she found that nothing could have prepared her for the reality of illness and the devastation of loss. OB: I had to grapple with time because I was grappling with Alzheimer’s, a temporally disorganising illness, but also grappling with recovery, which gives you this whole different way of organising your life. You have a sobriety birthday, you keep time in a different way. One of the quiet threads through the book is als o anti-capitalist, anti-linear time. We all exist in the trap of this impossible system that is in the process of slowly exploding, and the way to stop obsessing about those things is to pay deep attention to someone else in care. The Times Scrupulously honest . . . Threaded through with tantalizing glimpses of the world of archaeology, Tarlow’s book is a raw, courageous examination of a sad ending to an uneasy relationship. Save In Conversation with Jess Phillips MP to your collection. Share In Conversation with Jess Phillips MP with your friends.

After I had a motorbike accident, he suggested I go to AA – to him, it no longer looked like escape I was chasing, but oblivion. The thing is, sometimes oblivion feels good. There’s a reason it’s the name of a rollercoaster – there can be a deep pleasure in letting go. There is something gratifying in self-abandon and the adrenaline rush of risk. And there’s nothing wrong with chasing a little oblivion from time to time. The trouble comes when it goes from being the exception to the rule.

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The woman remains a mystery, the focus often more on her observers. It’s easy to empathise with her quest for strength and stillness, especially as a response to pain, but why must it be witnessed by others? Self-realisation and narcissism here seem inseparable. That narcissism and the narrators’ unreliability creates an unsatisfying detachment in the reader and flattens the novel’s tone, but the characters are always intriguing.

One very small point which may jar some readers and kudos to Bright for mentioning it a few times - it’s evident she grew up with lots of privilege. For example I found myself asking a few times how she was living in a flat by herself and travelling whilst doing a PhD. Anyway very small quibble and Bright mentions it more than once, explaining that this is an important factor in aiding her recovery. Save In Conversation with Wes Streeting MP to your collection. Share In Conversation with Wes Streeting MP with your friends.London Fashion Week Paris Fashion Week Milan Fashion Week New York Fashion Week News Fashion Wedding Ideas Beauty Hair Trends Life + culture Holiday Inspiration All videos Elle fashion cupboard Share this event Save this event: Woodberry Recovery - The Way Course, Steps to Recovery from addictions Purchasing a book may earn the NS a commission from Bookshop.org, who support independent bookshops This memoir has been compared to The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, and I can see why . . . In the end, there is so much love in this book. In writing such a meticulously honest book, she memorialises her cant-hating husband in the best way possible. I think he would be proud of her too.' The Times



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