A Moment of Grace

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Pub Date 24 May 2018 | Archive Date 28 May 2018

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'A profoundly moving and impassioned account of a 28-year romance.' The Observer


‘A Moment of Grace is one of the more beautiful books I’ve read: raw, gracious, candid and true. It is about the last 13 months of Nicola’s life; from the ordinary London day she was diagnosed to the time she took her last breath. It manages to be an uplifting book about tragedy – because there is such romance in the mundanity of survival and such ferocity in the way this one little family love one another.’ British Vogue

How do you learn to live in the wake of death?

Patrick Dillon and Nicola Thorold were together for twenty-eight years. Patrick was an award-winning architect and writer and Nicola a leading figure in theatre, awarded an OBE for her contribution to the arts at London’s Roundhouse. Their two children were almost grown-up. Life was good.

And then, in May 2015, Nicola was diagnosed with leukaemia. After several rounds of treatment, a bone marrow transplant and many waves of recovery and decline, she died thirteen months after her diagnosis. Six months later, at Christmas, Patrick started to write.

A Moment of Grace is the searing, tender account of Patrick’s life with Nicola and her illness, and his life after her loss. But it is more than a story of illness and unbearable grief: it is a book of memory, of home, of family. It is a tale of the transfiguring power of love. Heartbreaking, life-affirming and truly unforgettable, A Moment of Grace is one man’s journey to find life after his wife’s death.


'A profoundly moving and impassioned account of a 28-year romance.' The Observer


‘A Moment of Grace is one of the more beautiful books I’ve read: raw, gracious, candid and true. It is about the last...


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ISBN 9781785038464
PRICE £12.99 (GBP)
PAGES 208

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There are many books written about illness, cancer and grief but there is something about this one that makes it stand out from the others - possibly a sense of dignity and hope. Whilst it did make me cry on more than one occasion it always felt full of hope and optimism.

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