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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

‘A beautiful and devastating book’

ZADIE SMITH

The Year of Magical Thinking speaks beautifully and heart-rendingly of the power love has to give life meaning.

When Joan Didion’s husband died suddenly of a massive heart attack, a partnership of 40 years ended in a second. Just days before, the couple had seen their only daughter fall seriously ill. Despite the unshakable reality of her husband’s death, Joan Didion’s thinking was far from down to earth – she found herself, for instance, keeping his shoes in case he returned. Slowly she realised that beneath all the ritual and words lay a simple, aching truth – that she longed to perform an impossible trick and bring him back. This is the story of a year spent wishing; a year of magical thinking.

‘A poised, heart-rending memoir’

JOYCE CAROL OATES

‘A masterpiece of restraint and perception’

SUNDAY TIMES

‘Wise and profoundly affecting’

CRAIG BROWN, MAIL ON SUNDAY

Quintana Roo, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, Malibu, 1976