Kadian Journal
Author(s): Thomas Harding
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In July 2012 Thomas Harding's fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. This book is the result. Beginning on the day of Kadian's death, and continuing to the year anniversary, and beyond, Kadian Journal is a record of grief in its rawest form, and of a mind in shock and questioning a strange new reality. Interspersed within the journal are fragments of memory: jewel-bright everyday moments that slowly combine to form a biography of a lost son, and a lost life. It is an extraordinary document, and several things at once: a lucid, raw, and startlingly brave book: a powerful and moving account of a father's grief, and a beautiful tribute to an exceptional son.
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A poignant, painful and inspiring evocation of a lost son, and of the burden of grief from the Costa Award shortlisted author of Hanns and Rudolf.
"This is the very best account of a parent's bereavement I have ever read, a powerfully immediate and clear-eyed record of a devastating experience. It is also a love story, true and deep - offering film-like clips of the joys of parenthood, and of the agony when it abruptly ends." -- Julia Samuel, Founder and Patron of Child Bereavement UK "Stunning. The most moving book I've read." -- Ian Austin MP
Thomas Harding is a journalist who has written for the Sunday Times, Financial Times and the Guardian, among other publications. He co-founded a television station in Oxford, and for many years was an award-winning publisher of a newspaper in West Virginia. He is also the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz. He lives in Hampshire, England.
General Fields
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- : Cornerstone
- : William Heinemann Ltd
- : 0.424
- : 01 June 2014
- : 222mm X 144mm X 26mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas Harding
- : Hardback
- : 155.937
- : 256