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Danielle Steel wrote His Bright Light in tribute to her son and as an attempt to understand his bipolar affective disorder (manic depression).  Nick loved music: he wrote lyrics and became a vocalist.  Despite being hit by a serious depression when his first band split, he found the impulse to set up a second.  After [...]


This wonderful collection is infused with and sustained by an ebullience that, at times, is almost exhausting.  Too grounded to be surreal, too substantial to be conceits, dense in content but light in touch, many of these poems are written in the style of comic magic realism.  The sense of delight they carry, their wit, [...]