Who better to write about forgiveness than Desmond Tutu, head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, partially responsible for South Africa’s transition to peaceful racial co-existence after apartheid? With his daughter Mpho, also a priest, he gives practical guidance to anyone unable to escape the hatred and misery that closes round those unable to forgive.Tutu has two articles of faith: first, forgiveness is vital to our psychological well-being, and, second, nothing, even the greatest cruelty, is unforgiveable. The book is packed with examples: the white supremacist who sought and was granted the forgiveness of those injured in his own bomb attack; the parents who worked with the killers of their daughter in the charity they set up in the deprived part of Cape Town where the