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From the reviews of The Year of Magical Thinking:

‘This is a beautiful and devastating book by one of the finest writers we have. Didion has always been a precise, humane and meticulously truthful writer, but on the subject of death she becomes essential’

ZADIE SMITH

‘The book of the year … a heartbreaking, passionate book that offers no easy answers’

Guardian

‘A poised, heart-rending memoir’

JOYCE CAROL OATES

‘Joan Didion has produced, with desperate honesty, a book about loss and grief … It is astonishing to find a great subject, in all its sorrow, meeting its match in one of the true talents of our age’

COLM TóIBíN

‘A gripping account of the workings of bereavement and grief, unflinchingly analysed’

HERMIONE LEE, TLS

‘I read The Year of Magical Thinking in a sitting and can’t get over it. It’s not merely my book of the year, but one of my books of the decade. The precision of the memoir is astonishing, the value of the lives immeasurable. As a portrait of a marriage and an encapsulation of the writing life, as a commemoration of grief and a testament of love, this is a book that will never leave the mind of anyone who reads it’

ANDREW O’HAGAN, Scotsman

‘A luminously shocking memoir of bereavement … Her triumph is to show us that artifice – the shaping of prose, the arrangement of memory – need not strip the rawness of lived experience of its power’

ALEX CLARK, Daily Telegraph

‘The Year of Magical Thinking is in fact a year of lucid and rational thinking, about grief and mourning and feared loss; this account of a husband’s death and daughter’s grave illness is the more moving for not trying to be’

JULIAN BARNES

‘Her book, exploring an agonising universal experience, will speak to and maybe comfort anyone who has lost for ever the one they loved’

VAL HENNESSY, Daily Mail

‘You get her peerless sharp, stylish reporting and almost forensic attention to detail. To see her turning these instruments on her own ordeal is as shocking as it is moving. Grief, writes Didion, takes us to a place none of us knows till we reach it’

DAVID ROBSON, Daily Express

‘A masterpiece of restraint and perception … Utterly compelling’

Sunday Times

‘Wise and profoundly affecting’

CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday

‘A masterpiece … dense with sentiment, without ever being sentimental, tough, witty, broken, tender and flawlessly sustained. The amount of risk in her writing is extraordinary and exemplary’

ADAM THIRLWELL, Observer

‘A spell-bindingly clear-eyed account of bereavement’

Evening Standard

‘An exceptional study of the nature of grief’

Independent on Sunday

‘Didion skilfully illuminates past happiness, a marriage close as a shared breath … a remarkable writer … a brave book’

MIRANDA SEYMOUR, Sunday Times

‘Taking the reader to places where they would not otherwise go is, of course, one of the things a really good book can do. Powerful, moving and true’

CRESSIDA CONNOLLY, Spectator

‘The book achieves something that Didion herself thought impossible – it gives voice to the most inarticulate of emotions. It is an extraordinarily eloquent cry of pain’

LISA ALLARDICE, New Statesman

‘Α rare example of a book which is both raw and thoughtful’

MARK LAWSON, Sunday Telegraph

‘The Year of Magical Thinking is powerfully moving, a work of surpassing clarity and truthfulness … quite unlike any other memoir I’ve read. As with most truly great books, there are no bogus resolutions. Questions are unanswered, huge tensions unresolved, but somehow you’re consoled: it’s really a book about living’

JOSEPH O’CONNOR, Irish Independent

‘Will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband, wife or child’

Economist

‘Cool has been Didion’s literary trademark, but this brave book maps a year in her life when the world flipped over to expose the underside of cool where things go bad’

The Times

‘I can’t think of a book we need more than hers. I can’t imagine dying without this book’

JOHN LEONARD, New York Review of Books

‘Stunning candour and piercing details. An indelible portrait of loss and grief. A haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage’

MICHIKO KAKUTANI, New York Times