Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking

By Michael Harding

Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained. When he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately, he found a way out of the dark, by accepting the fragility of love and the importance of now. Staring at Lakes started out as a book about depression. And then became a story about growing old, the essence of love and marriage - and sitting in cars, staring at lakes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144474349X
• ISBN13: 9781444743494
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.0"