The Passing Of The Forms That We Have Loved

Christopher Boon spent his formative years in a small village in rural Hertfordshire. He studied English at Manchester University and, upon graduating, worked for three years as an English teacher in Ogaki City, Japan. He now works as a teacher in southern France.

There are many registers to Christopher Boon’s prose – among them fragility, intensity, lyricism, reflection, observation, elegy. It is always compelling. This is raw, emotive, impactful, heartbreaking stuff. All in all, a wonderfully immersive reading experience. Buy it. Read it. Read it again. (Alan McMonagle – author of Ithaca and Laura Cassidy’s Walk of Fame); Boon offers a courageous and moving portrait of the numbness and psychic disintegration that accompanies overwhelming grief. This is a brave and profoundly human book about loss, regret and powerlessness. (Mark A Radcliffe – author of Gabriel’s Angel and Stranger Than Kindness)