Cressida Connolly

Empty house blues

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion

    Fourth Estate, pp. 227

‘People who have recently lost someone have a certain look . . . one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness,’ observes Joan Didion in this painful memoir, which describes the first year of her widowhood after 40-odd years of marriage. She should know: the merest glance at her photograph confirms what the mirror must tell her, every day.

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