If The Spirit Moves You

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 died 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 next year, Justine's search for Ruth led 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 experiences with the afterlife in an age of reason, scepticism and science. Powerfully moving, both heartbreaking and funny, it is an extraordinary book about the exhausting journey of grief and the enduring power of love. '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 'Extraordinarily compelling . . . instantly recognisable to all those who have experienced the agony of bereavement' Daily Mail

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.