Reading By Moonlight, by Brenda Walker, Hamish Hamilton, $29.95.
One woman’s journey through the books that saved her life. Not changed it, not improved it, but saved it when, out of a bright blue sky, the unimaginable happened and she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Perth-based author Brenda Walker did what she had to do medically, but it was the books she loved and shares with us here which restored her psyche and, she insists, physical health since “the books and the illness interlace with each other”. A big claim, but I loved this book so much we’re doing it for our July book club on television. It’s no literary self-help manual but a graceful and immensely moving hymn of praise to the power of reading, and how it can touch your soul.
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