Over the years Dorothy McRae-McMahon has contributed various titles to the MediaCom publishing house. Ian Price regards her latest work – memoir, eulogy and liturgy – a rare and wonderful book. It’s a record of a painful journey, a common love and perspective, he said. “In the pages of this book you will discover honest and transparent reflections on life, love, death, God, life after death, grief and faith.”
Andrew Collis said: “It really is a fine record of honest and transformative relationship. Ali’s presence, in it and through it, is so vivid … I can only imagine the strength it took, after Ali’s death, to complete it. I can only imagine the way the writing has accompanied the grieving and perhaps has offered a way to grieve with gratitude for love.”
Julie McCrossin spoke as a close friend of Dorothy and Ali, and as someone enduring her own cancer treatment. Her words were full of understanding and assurance, as she paid tribute to “an abiding love story, a deep, probing, ongoing conversation … a conversation we are invited to join, an outward-looking conversation that nurtures meaning while expecting ambiguity”. The book’s key strengths, she said, are its brevity, intimacy and simple language.
