Description
Synopsis:
Readings for Funerals is a perceptive collection of Bible quotations, poems, hymns and prose, offering consolation and comfort to those bereaved. Featuring the writing of, amongst others, W. H. Auden, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot and Joyce Grenfell, it is suitable for use at secular funerals, celebrations of a life and church services. This book follows the style of the highly successful Readings for Weddings which has sold over 7,000 copies.
Review:
‘This book will be a great help and a real comfort to anyone going through a difficult time in their life – something that happens to us all sooner or later.’ –Dame Judi Dench
‘It is extremely unusual to meet anyone who isn’t a specialist who has such a subtle feeling for language as [Mark Oakley] does.’ –Sir Andrew Motion, Former Poet Laureate
