'An heroic book. Begun in health as a meditation on a lifetime's faith and experience, it ends in mortal sickness with Michael Mayne facing death. But his courage, his humour and his tone of voice do not desert him; humbling and inspiring, it is a validation both of his faith and his humanity.' Alan Bennett 'A testimony to the power of faith and hope not to banish but to grow alongside pain and loss as a realisable potential of consciousness. It is...