It's raw, and it's real, and it's wonderful. I would strongly recommend people pick A Grief Observed up if only for this alone - I love a good epic love story in my fiction, but nothing really comes close to how amazing it is to read a person's true, real feelings written down so honestly. But what I didn't expect was just how much I was bowled over by Lewis' love for his wife, rather than his grief over her passing through his grief, his love for his wife is so evident, it's startlingly beautiful despite the sadness. Lewis wrote a journal of his thoughts and feelings his sadness, his love for his wife, his issues with God during that period, and how he slowly finds his way through the agony and despair of bereavement.Īs I said, I originally picked up A Grief Observed hoping it would help me with my own grief, and in a small way it did, in that I identified with some of what thought and felt.
Hoping it might help, I borrowed it, and it's a great little book.Īfter the death of his wife, Joy Davidson, C.S. She remembered the recommendation after our recent loss of a good friend, and so bought the book. Lewis when my Grandad passed away seven years ago, but never got around to buying a copy. My Mum was recommended A Grief Observed by C.S. Painfully honest in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings, this is a book that details his paralysing grief, bewilderment and sense of loss in simple and moving prose. Lewis - A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian apologist on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. But I shall never be a biped again.A Grief Observed by C.S.
Perhaps I shall presently be given a wooden leg. At present I am learning to get about on crutches. All sorts of pleasures and activities that he once took for granted will have to be simply written off. Bathing, dressing, sitting down and getting up again, even lying in bed, will all be different. There will be hardly any moment when he forgets it. He has ‘got over it.’ But he will probably have recurrent pains in the stump all his life, and perhaps pretty bad ones and he will always be a one-legged man. Presently he’ll get back his strength and be able to stump about on his wooden leg. If it heals, the fierce, continuous pain will stop. After that operation either the wounded stump heals or the man dies. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing after he’s had his leg off is quite another. “Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous.
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