Life after death

“All grief is both particular and general … as variously tinged as the vividly hued leaves [of] the lone acacia tree.” The two books here starkly illustrate the truth of that statement. The lines come from Pascal’s Tears; the tree stood in the hospital where the writer Robert Fraser embarked on the odyssey of his wife’s death.

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