Until Tonight

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Laure Adler learned from a colleague that her nine-month-old baby son, Remi, had been taken ill, and she rushed to the hospital. So began months of battling - with uncommunicative doctors and nurses, and with her own feelings of guilt, terror, and hopelessness. Seventeen years after Remi's death, Laure Adler finally started to put her grief into words. Until Tonight is a powerful document - heartrending, brave and loving - about the experiences of insurmountable grief.

Laure Adler was born in 1950. She has written several books on the history of women, and a prize-winning biography of Marguerite Duras. She has worked in publishing and as a journalist, and is now the Director of the France Culture radio station.

'Her own brush with death in a car crash in 2000 released the flood of anguish and guilt that Laure Adler felt about the sudden, catastrophic illness and subsequent death of her baby son, Remi, seventeen years previously. This is a nightmare tale of parental agony, medical insensitivity and the ultimate, cautious acceptance of loss' SUNDAY TIMES 'Lulls the reader into a spiritual poetry' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'A sense of helplessness, of being pulled along by events, pervades the telling. The couple don't ask questions and are rarely offered explanations, so when the end arrives they don't see it coming. This is a devastating, deeply sad yet unsentimental account of an unbearable grief' TIME OUT 'From the unexpected tragedy to the stupor of unhappiness from the denial to the chlorinated corridors of the hospital, we share with her every emotion, every sensation, every silence so strong is the power of her words. A loving memorial to a lost child. A great book' MARIE CLAIRE