{"product_id":"beneficence-by-meredith-hall-9781567927092","title":"Beneficence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfter a sudden and terrible loss, how does a loving family find their way back to the goodness and peace they once shared? Reviewers and readers have called this literary historical novel \"hauntingly beautiful,\" \"a masterpiece of compassion,\" \"a page-turner and an artistic triumph.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWritten by a masterful storyteller, this is a book that illuminates the journey we make through grief to healing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of a nearly perfect life, Doris Senter is thankful but wary. \"We can't ever know what will come,\" she says. When an unimaginable tragedy turns the family of five into a family of four, everything the Senters held faith in is shattered. The family is consumed by sorrow and guilt. Slowly, the surviving family members find their way to forgiveness—of themselves and of each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFew writers know the human heart and the burden of grief as \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Meredith Hall (\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout a Map\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e). This is a radiant novel of goodness and love—both its gifts and its obligations—that will stay with readers long after the last page. With a rare tenderness and compassion, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeneficence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e shows broken hearts becoming whole as this family reclaims their love and peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"People stay together, fall apart, come back together, altered. It is a book about work, about grief, about thick ongoing love. Hall's prose is hewn, sinewy, with moments of electrifying beauty and grace.\"—\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best books I've ever read.\"—Simon Van Booy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"As organically as it traveled to heartbreak, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeneficence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of the 'vast world of innocence and harm,' not an island beyond it.\"—\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A modern American masterpiece.\"—Dani Shapiro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"If the word 'luminous' didn't already exist, you'd have to invent it to describe Meredith Hall's radiant new novel \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeneficence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"—Richard Russo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"These voices from the past speak so clearly to our time, at a moment when many of us wonder whether we'll lose the things that we consider blessings... \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeneficence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a quiet but steady book, one that echoes ancient and important rhythms.\"—\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A quiet gem...hard to put down.\"—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hauntingly beautiful, emotionally devastating, and infused with great compassion.\"—Kim Barnes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"With wisdom and compassion, Meredith Hall writes about the capacity for atonement. Goodness. Generosity to see deeply, to live through fear and pain on your journey toward the awareness of splendor.\"—Ursula Hegi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423834915052,"sku":"9781567927092","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781567927092.jpg?v=1774769815","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/beneficence-by-meredith-hall-9781567927092","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}