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A poignant and uplifting memoir of life and love after death

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With an introduction by Andrew O´Hagan

When I think about her now, which is most of the time, it´s like rewinding a silent film in my head: I see the crucial scenes in our lives together. But what I can´t hear is her voice in my head, and that silence is driving me crazy.

After her sister Ruth´s death from breast cancer in September 1997, Justine Picardie was desperate to speak to her again, to hear her voice, to find something - anything - that might fill the space she had left behind. Over the course of the next year, Justine´s search for Ruth lead her into the underworld of spiritualism, through a series of encounters with mediums and psychics who believe that we can communicate with those we have lost.
If the Spirit Moves You is Justine´s remarkable story about her search for the afterlife in an age of reason, scepticism and science. Powerfully moving, both heart-breaking and funny, it is an extraordinary classic about the exhausting journey of grief and the enduring power of love.

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Every single person who has experienced the loss, yearning and honourable rage of bereavement will know that this is their book. There is nothing else like it Nigella Lawson

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Picardie, Justine
Justine Picardie writes for Vogue and the Daily Telegraph. She is the editor of a collection of stories, Truth or Dare, and the author of the novel Wish I May and the memoirs If the Spirit Moves You and My Mother´s Wedding Dress. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.

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