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. Heartbreaking, life-affirming and truly unforgettable, A Moment of Grace is one man's journey to find life after his wife's death.
George Bowling, the hero of Orwell's comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from ...