On a long car journey to Norfolk, Little Jo's repetitive chant, 'We're going to the wide, flat land, the wide, flat land, the wide, flat land,' resonates through the car, much to her older brother's annoyance. Hailing from Surrey, the siblings have always been enchanted by the charm of East Anglia's countryside, their anticipation heightened by the nostalgic tales of their mother's own childhood holidays on the north-east coast. Upon arrival at their quaint holiday cottage, a chance encoun...

On a long car journey to Norfolk, Little Jo’s repetitive chant, ‘We’re going to the wide, flat land, the wide, flat land, the wide, flat land,’ resonates through the car, much to her older brother’s annoyance. Hailing from Surrey, the siblings have always been enchanted by the charm of East Anglia’s countryside, their anticipation heightened by the nostalgic tales of their mother’s own childhood holidays on the north-east coast.Upon arrival at their quaint holiday cottage, a chance...

Few people, even in Norwich, knew anything about Julian when her 600th anniversary was celebrated in 1973. Among them was Sheila Upjohn, in spite of having lived in Norwich most of her life and studying mediaeval literature at university. So she set out to find the reason Julian’s book had been hidden for centuries, and why it is so startlingly relevant today.In Search of Julian of Norwich reads like a spiritual detective story as Sheila uncovers clues in Julian’s city, her century...

‘And because of our good Lord’s tender love to all those who shall be saved, he quickly comforts them, saying: “The cause of all this pain is sin. But all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”’All Shall Be Well presents – in a series of short passages suitable for daily reading and meditation – Sheila Upjohn’s acclaimed modern translations of fourteenth-century anchoress Julian of Norwich’s The Revelations of Divine Love.The Pocket Li...

In Sharing the Darkness, Sheila Cassidy – a leading figure of the hospice movement, and survivor, as a young doctor, of torture for daring to give medical care to an opponent of the Pinochet regime in Chile – meditates on the mystery of our wounded humanity, trying to wrest meaning and a spirituality of caring out of the reality of suffering.