Book description
Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of
emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a
writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained. When he was
fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of
a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks
with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood
when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife,
the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately,
he found a way out of the dark, by accepting the fragility of love and
the importance of now.
Michael Harding is an author and playwright. His creative
chronicle of ordinary life in the Irish midlands is published as a
weekly column in the Irish Times. He has published three novels,
Priests, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion and Bird in the Snow.
