Una Kroll draws on her own experience to explore the spiritual realities of survival. She endured a childhood marked by poverty and marred by a suicide attempt by her mother, eventually becoming a doctor in general practice. Her husband Leo had been a monk, working in Africa, while she was a nun. Their marriage, in the manner of Abelard and Heloise, caused them to be the centre of controversy. Thirty years later she faced her greatest challenge: the death of her husband. In this sensitive and spiritually insightful account, Una Kroll stresses the value of being aware of the common stages of bereavement, such as guilt at being a survivor and anger at God, while stressing the need to be responsive to individual experiences of grief. ‘Anatomy of Survival’ is the most affecting and useful account of survival and faith since CS Lewis's ‘A Grief Observed.’
ISBN: 9780264675305 (2001) 124pp