Thirty Days

‘This elegy of love and grief takes back to our hearts knowledge that is too often only in our heads—that the disappearance of a human personality will forever be mysterious to us because every human being is irreplaceable.’—Raimond Gaita, author of Romulus, My Father;
‘Piercing, unsparing, and sweet, this book will break your heart and put it back together again.’—Miranda Richmond Mouillot, author of A Fifty-year Silence;
‘A beautiful memoir, not just about one marriage, but the nature of marriage itself.’—Readings;
‘A book characterised by love, empathy and connection to life.’—Sydney Morning Herald; ‘Baker’s memoir allows his readers to see the magnitude of our existence beneath the surface of our daily lives.’—Courier Mail;
‘Baker presents, with extraordinary openness, the vulnerable experience of early mourning. He describes his traumatic experiences with a historian’s precision, aware of the trip­ wires, elisions and exaggerations attending the recording of evidence.’—Weekend Australian