Richard Carter is a priest at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London’s Trafalgar Square and leader of its Nazareth Community. He is the author of the bestselling The City is My Monastery and In Search of the Lost, a moving first-hand account of loss and grief after the violent deaths of seven members of a religious order in the Solomon Islands.

'With characteristic honesty and sensitivity, Richard Carter writes letters to console, sometimes provoke but always to encourage and build up the people of God. At the hardest of times, at the bedside of a dying friend, or in the bewilderment of pandemic uncertainty, his personal call to surrender all to Christ is a call, as he outlines at the end of each chapter, not only to pray but to wonder. Read the letters written to the scattered community and you will feel they have been written only for you.'