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If the Spirit Moves You is the story of life after death—it chronicles a year in the life of Justine Picardie after the death of her sister, her soul mate, from breast cancer. It tells of the yearning to conjure a voice from the vast silence, of how we fill the space that appears when someone dies, or how the space fills itself, of the bond of sisters that, like an endless conversation, carries on. Told in a series of diary entries from Good Friday to Easter Sunday a year later, the book is filled with significant characters from the author’s life—her Jewish academic father, who searches for answers to life’s existential questions in the Kabbalah; her Catholic therapist mother; her husband, her children—as well as the spiritualists she encounters and their machines that speak to the dead. A search for the afterlife in the age of reason, If the Spirit Moves You is poignant and bracing, cosmic and uplifting, all at once.

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"""An extraordinary investigation...an illuminating and uplifting read."" -Financial Times""Tackles some of the most important developments in psychic research."" -The Daily Telegraph(London) ""Poignant, moving, and funny."" -The Express"

A tender memoir [and] a provocative tour of...psychic labyrinths. An extraordinary investigation...an illuminating and uplifting read. It is the authenticity of Picardie's emotional and intellectual quest, and her conclusions about life and love as much as death, that make this book so hopeful and engaging. Tackles some of the most important developments in psychic research during the 20th century. The result is a book of great discipline...investigating the limits of what we know about being both dead and alive. Poignant, moving, and funny. An honest and searingly emotional account of a journey of the spirit. If you've lost someone close, you will find it deeply comforting. Is there life after death? Picardie's life after Ruth's demise, and her luminous memorial to her, virtually proves that there is. An extraordinary investigation...an illuminating and uplifting read. -Financial Times Tackles some of the most important developments in psychic research. -The Daily Telegraph(London) Poignant, moving, and funny. -The Express

An extraordinary investigation...an illuminating and uplifting read. -Financial Times Tackles some of the most important developments in psychic research. -The Daily Telegraph(London) Poignant, moving, and funny. -The Express

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Justine Picardie is a journalist working most recently at British Vogue and as editor of the Observer Magazine. She lives in London.

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