The Healing Art
By A.N. Wilson
1980
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3.47
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Pamela Cowper, nearing forty, is facing death. Not as a remoste abstract proposition, but as an immediate reality. Her doctor had diagnosed cancer, and Pamela is told she has perhaps a matter of months to live. How does a lively, intelligent woman confront this appalling prospect? Pamela, a university lecturer in English, makes her won decisions - something to the alarm of her medical advisers. One journey is undertaken at the suggestions of her parish priest, the formidable Hereward Stickley. Another, to America, is Pamela's own idea. Both journeys, in a sense, misfire: both lead to discoveries, of a kind, but the revelations encountered prove to be deeply ambiguous.
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A.N. Wilson
Author · 54 books
Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and former columnist for the London Evening Standard, and has been an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer.
