Embarrassment and Loss
Marghanita Laski, 19 February 1981
Letter to a Younger Son
by Christopher Leach.
Dent, 155 pp., £5.95, January 1981,0 460 04496 6 Show More
by Christopher Leach.
Dent, 155 pp., £5.95, January 1981,
“... by others? Both are about untimely death, the deaths of children before their parents. Jane Zorza died slowly of cancer in her mid-twenties. Jonathan Leach died suddenly of an asthmatic attack at the age of 11. The stated purpose of the Zorzas’ book is to show how dying in a good hospice can relieve pain and bring both the dying and the survivors to ... ”