Synopses & Reviews
If the Spirit Moves You is the story of life after deathit chronicles a year in the life of Justine Picardie after the death of her sister, her soul mate, from breast cancer. It tells of the yearning to conjure a voice from the vast silence, of how we fill the space that appears when someone dies, or how the space fills itself, of the bond of sisters that, like an endless conversation, carries on.
Told in a series of diary entries from Good Friday to Easter Sunday a year later, the book is filled with significant characters from the authors lifeher Jewish academic father, who searches for answers to lifes existential questions in the Kabbalah; her Catholic therapist mother; her husband, her childrenas well as the spiritualists she encounters and their machines that speak to the dead.
A search for the afterlife in the age of reason, If the Spirit Moves You is poignant and bracing, cosmic and uplifting, all at once.
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Tackles some of the most important developments in psychic research. (The Daily Telegraph, London)
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"An extraordinary investigation...an illuminating and uplifting read." -
Financial Times "Tackles some of the most important developments in psychic research." -The Daily Telegraph(London)
"Poignant, moving, and funny." -The Express
Synopsis
Justine Picardie shares the story of the loss of her sister, of bereavement and a thinking person's investigation into psychic phenomenon.
Synopsis
When journalist Justine Picardie lost her sister Ruth to breast cancer in 2000, she yearned to conjure a voice from the vast silence, to fill the space left by her sister's absence. Over the years that followed, she sought out psychics, mediums, and an array of ancient and modern methods of contacting the other side. It was a year filled with skepticism and belief, emotion and intellect, darkness and light-a personal and sometimes painful search for the afterlife in an age of reason.
About the Author
Justine Picardie is a journalist working most recently at British Vogue and as editor of the Observer Magazine. She lives in London.