Bright Shining

How Grace Changes Everything

Julia Baird, Julia Baird

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Bolinda/HarperCollins Audio
28 November 2023

Popular medicine & health; Self-help & personal development; Audiobooks - Non-fiction

Grace is both mysterious and hard to define. It can be found when we create ways to find meaning and dignity in connection with each other, building on our shared humanity, being kinder, bigger, better with each other. If, in its crudest interpretation, karma is getting what you deserve, then grace is the opposite – forgiving the unforgivable, favouring the undeserving, loving the unlovable.

But we live in an era when grace is an increasingly rare currency. The silos in which we consume information dot the media landscape like skyscrapers, and our growing distrust of the media, politicians and public figures has choked our ability to cut each other slack, to allow each other to stumble, to forgive one another.

So what does grace look like in our world, and how do we recognise it, nurture it in ourselves and express it, even in the darkest of times?

By: Julia Baird
Read by: Julia Baird
Imprint: Bolinda/HarperCollins Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 122mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 68g
ISBN: 9781460745748
ISBN 10: 1460745744
Publication Date: 28 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Julia Baird is an award-winning author and journalist. She co-hosts The Drum on ABC TV and writes columns for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Harper’s Bazaar. She is a former senior editor of Newsweek and op-ed contributor for the New York Times. Her biography of Queen Victoria was one of the New York Times’ top ten books of 2016 and her third book, Phosphorescence, was a multi-award-winning international bestseller. Julia lives near the sea with her two children and an abnormally large dog. Julia Baird is an award-winning author and journalist. She co-hosts The Drum on ABC TV and writes columns for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Harper’s Bazaar. She is a former senior editor of Newsweek and op-ed contributor for the New York Times. Her biography of Queen Victoria was one of the New York Times’ top ten books of 2016 and her third book, Phosphorescence, was a multi-award-winning international bestseller. Julia lives near the sea with her two children and an abnormally large dog.

Reviews for Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Julia Baird's new, beautiful consideration of the things that glow through the murk … one that aims to provoke delight and wonder and comfort ...' The Guardian' (on Phosphorescence) -- The Guardian 'Julia Baird is an alchemist, turning the dross of her life's harshest blows into shimmering prose. Both timeless and timely,' (on Phosphorescence) -- Geraldine Brooks, bestselling author '... a love letter to the world by a brilliant writer who nearly left it. Julia Baird has gone into the depths of human experience, her own, and others', and come back with this luminous and profound celebration of people and the planet.' (on Phosphorescence) -- Anna Funder, author of Stasiland