IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU: LOVE AND LIFE AFTER DEATH - Hardcover
Before she died, the author's sister Ruth published columns which became her book "Before I Say Goodbye". Now, Justine Picardie here writes the story of life after death and, literally, the story of her own life after her sister's death. It is a book about love and hope, as well as death.
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If the Spirit Moves You chronicles the true life story of British Vogue writer Justine Picardie's desperate effort to contact her deceased youngest sister. In a year's worth of journal entries, Picardie shares a common theme for those who are grieving a death: the intense yearning to fill the cavernous void, to hear her sister's voice. (Picardie's sister's story Before I Say Goodbye chronicles her death from cancer.) Initially, this memoir repeats the same struggle: Picardie tries yet another cockamamie contact-dead-people machine or meets with yet another charlatan medium and comes up feeling more isolated than when she started. Things begin to shift when Picardie encounters a medium who sees Ruth on a bicycle (she rode her bike everywhere) wearing her favorite linen shirt and promising Picardie that the two sisters will speak again someday. And yet, Picardie still feels empty. Finally, a massage therapist tells Picardie, "You know, you can't bring back the dead, but you can make your children happy."
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"This seems to me like the best advice I've heard for some time," Picardie writes. And from here she begins the deeper spiritual work at hand: committing to the land of the living, accepting the limitations of death, while still being willing to love and silently engage in dialogue with her sister without a shred of proof of life after death to cling to. --Gail Hudson
Justine Picardie is a journalist working most recently at British Vogue and as editor of the Observer Magazine.
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- PublisherMacMillan
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 033390642X
- ISBN 13 9780333906422
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages230
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