A meditation on illness, suffering, redemption and hope by the author of The Enduring Melody.n A crucial year of Michael's life was lost  and yet he found in it a vein of the purest spiritual gold.' - Gerald Priestland nFirst published in 1987, this is a remarkable and unusual book that addresses all of us who look for illumination  on the other side of the dark'. It makes a poignant complement to Michael Mayne's last book, The Enduring Melody, which was written twenty years later, in the final months of his life