I became an optimist the night my wife died, lead feature in The Guardian‘s Books section.
An excerpt from THE BRIGHT SIDE, mostly from the Prologue but with a bit from the Epilogue too. This was the first major public exposure for the book, and I was pretty nervous about how it would go down. In the event it was warmly received; I was particularly touched to hear from so many other people who had been through similar experiences, and had similarly mixed feelings about how best to move on from them.