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If You Sit Very Still
by Marian Partington
"It is very difficult to find the words or an image that describes the pain and disorientation of one’s sister simply disappearing without trace for twenty years."
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Published on 10th May 2012. £15.99 Order here
"The lyrical, humbling fruit of a long and determined effort to make sense of humanity at its darkest and to achieve forgiveness, serenity and peace."
Deborah Orr
"The grace of the author's words casts transfiguring light on the ugliest cruelty and sorest loss."
Stephen Cherry
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"If you didn't believe before that the storyteller can be both healer and magician, you could hardly not believe it after reading this book. I feel the better, and the wiser, for having read this inspiring text." Fact and Fiction magazine, February 2012
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"The power of Coming Home to Story lies in Mead's passion and adventure, his faith in stories and storytelling as a source of creativity, healing and sustenance."
Bristol Review of Books, December 2011
"Coming Home to Story talks directly and engagingly about the way storytelling can profoundly affect someone’s life from first tentative encounter to a glorious and joyful tool and metaphor for life and work."
Michael Harvey, Storyteller
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