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About The Book
'Cantacuzino's gift for empathy shines through her conversations... She tackles her complex [message] with clear prose and an open heart... This nuance feels like a cool breeze in a heatwave. If there is a message here, it's to listen more, think more and preach less'
Sunday Times
‘This is an utterly memorable book – beautifully written, fascinating in its insights, and extraordinarily moving. We all need to forgive, and this book, through its recounting of the stories of people who have something really significant to forgive, will be an inspiration to help us reach a state of forgiveness. This is a book that will stay with the reader for a very long time’
Alexander McCall Smith
I forgive you.
Three simple words behind which sits a gritty, complex concept that is so often relevant to our ordinary, everyday lives. These words can be used to absolve a meaningless squabble, or said to someone who has caused you great harm. They can liberate you from guilt, or consciously place blame on your shoulders.
Marina Cantacuzino seeks to investigate, unpick and debate the limits and possibilities of forgiveness, exploring the subject from every angle – presenting it as an offering, never a prescription.
Through real stories, expert opinion and the author’s experiences, the reader gets to better understand what forgiveness is and what it most definitely isn’t, how it can be an important element in breaking the cycle of suffering, and ultimately how it might help transform fractured relationships and mend broken hearts.
Forgiveness is a blueprint for how to live a more harmonious, richer life.
'Tender, valuable, and often beautiful, Forgiveness shows how we can get tabled up in hate, and how we might cut ourselves free'
Gavin Francis
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (February 20, 2024)
- Length: 304 pages
- ISBN13: 9781398513662
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Raves and Reviews
– Emma Thompson
'Cantacuzino's gift for empathy shines... A clear message, she suggests, is not possible without dangerous oversimplification. She tackles her complex one with clear prose and an open heart... This nuance feels like a cool breeze in a heatwave. If there is a message here, it's to listen more, think more and preach less'
– Sunday Times
– Gavin Francis
– Alexander McCall Smith
– Richard Holloway
– Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know
– Jon Snow
– Professor Anthony Costello
– Angela Findlay, author of In My Grandfather’s Shadow
– Rachel Kelly, mental health advocate and author of Sunday Times bestseller Black Rainbow
– Tessa McWatt, author of Shame on Me
– Sally Kohn, activist and author of The Opposite Of Hate: A Field Guide To Repairing Our Humanity
‘What marks Marina Cantacuzino’s book on forgiveness is that it is an enquiry rather than a persuasion. With journalistic skill, she observes, questions and considers stories; offering insights, but never prescribing. She amplifies stories we never want to hear, but desperately need to hear, offering wisdom from a human tradition that is as embodied as it is enduring: how to survive what we think is unsurvivable. I’ve followed her work for years, and this brilliant book is a remarkable exploration of her decades-long fascination with Forgiveness, its complications and its gifts’
– Pádraig Ó Tuama
– The Reverend Dr Stephen Cherry, Dean, King’s College, Cambridge
– Francesca Martinez
– Jennifer Nadel, author, broadcaster, campaigner and co-founder Compassion in Politics
– Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge University and author of Zero Degrees of Empathy
– Bea Setton, author of Berlin
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