A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998.To all concerned, this book is meant to send a ghostly signal across the dark universe of ill-health that says 'you are not alone.' - Robert McCrumOn July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum, 42, married only ten weeks, suffered a paralyzing stroke. Overnight, his life shifted irrevocably. But this admired novelist and former editorial director of the London publishing house Faber and Faber decided to chronicle what became a remarkable journey into that mysterious, unexplored territory, the neighbourly world of the unwell, as well as a deeply moving love story.