In my life, through The Search for Meaning and Australian Story, I have been given the wisdom of so many people’s stories, and admired their struggles to keep faith in life through the hard times. I have committed them to memory and treasured them in my heart. Why then am I handling this so badly?’

Through a Glass Darkly chronicles Caroline Jones’ immensely personal journey as she watched her deeply loved father die, and the challenging seven-year chapter of her life since. She was unprepared for the intensity of her grief; for a long time the experience of the final eight weeks of his life was locked up in images that haunted the dreams of her broken sleep, and startled her with their clarity when she awoke too early and unrefreshed.

She felt as though she was behind a pane of glass, on the other side of which people’s lives went on. Yet in time she grew through her grief; she developed a more profound perspective on life, a new depth of spiritual maturity, and a heightened awareness of the suffering of others.