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If the Spirit Moves You : Life and Love after Death

If the Spirit Moves You : Life and Love after Death Paperback - 2003

by Justine Picardie

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Picardie shares the story of the loss of her sister and of bereavement and offers a thinking person's investigation into psychic phenomenon.

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Penguin Publishing Group, 2003. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Details

  • Title If the Spirit Moves You : Life and Love after Death
  • Author Justine Picardie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Trade Pape
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G157322992XI3N00
  • ISBN 9781573229920 / 157322992X
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.35 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: New Age
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001048889
  • Dewey Decimal Code 133.9

Summary

If the Spirit Moves You is the story of life after death—it chronicles a year in the life of Justine Picardie after the death of her sister, her soul mate, from breast cancer. It tells of the yearning to conjure a voice from the vast silence, of how we fill the space that appears when someone dies, or how the space fills itself, of the bond of sisters that, like an endless conversation, carries on.

Told in a series of diary entries from Good Friday to Easter Sunday a year later, the book is filled with significant characters from the author’s life—her Jewish academic father, who searches for answers to life’s existential questions in the Kabbalah; her Catholic therapist mother; her husband, her children—as well as the spiritualists she encounters and their machines that speak to the dead.

A search for the afterlife in the age of reason, If the Spirit Moves You is poignant and bracing, cosmic and uplifting, all at once.

From the publisher

Justine Picardie is a journalist working most recently at British Vogue and as editor of the Observer Magazine. She lives in London.

First line

JESUS IS DEAD and so is my sister, and I'm running on a treadmill at the gym, watching MTV with no sound on.

Media reviews

"An extraordinary investigation...an illuminating and uplifting read." -Financial Times
"Tackles some of the most important developments in psychic research." -The Daily Telegraph(London)

"Poignant, moving, and funny." -The Express

Citations

  • New York Times, 09/14/2003, Page 28

About the author

Justine Picardie is a journalist working most recently at British Vogue and as editor of the Observer Magazine. She lives in London.