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Book SynopsisThroughout 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.
Staring at Lakes was a number one bestseller in Michael''s native Ireland and won three BGE Irish book awards in 2013, including Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
''It''s rare for a memoir to demand such intense emotional involvement and rarer still for it to be so fully rewarded'' - SUNDAY TIME
