O Love How Deep: A Tale of Three Souls - Softcover

Maryon, Diana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449721206 ISBN 13: 9781449721206

Publisher: Westbow Press, 2011

Synopsis

After twenty-six-year-old Australian David Carpenter -- himself a psychiatrist and neurological researcher -- had a breakdown in his first year at Cambridge, his therapist told him, "Go into the Anglican Chaplaincy, investigate Christianity, and have a love-affair with a nice Christian girl." He did precisely that.

Diana was only twenty. They grew so close that when, after four years, she married someone else, he returned home devastated. They did not meet again for eight years. He realised then that he still loved her, and she him. He asked her to break her marriage for him. Instead, she sent him away indefinitely.

In her last letter she begged him to give her up. She said that Oxford had rejected her dissertation. She was thirty-three, with her academic career now shattered.

This is the poignant true story of three hyper-intelligent, cosmopolitan, and highly-educated people fighting their way through to genuine faith, hope, and love in the modern world.

About this title

About the Author

Born on St. Valentine's Day in 1938, I have lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada since 1971. As of late 2011 I have been a convinced Christian for 53 years, and married for nearly 50. I have two moderately grown-up children, and two young grandchildren.

My husband, a distinguished Medievalist and Modern Linguist, has suffered from Parkinson's for nine years.

My story is about love, the love and goodness of God and the mutual love of three highly-intelligent, highly-educated people seeking to serve Him in this complicated modern world. It is the story of a real marriage, including many assaults on it, and at the same time the story of a marriage which did not take place. As I look back, I see myself as having been surrounded by love all my life.

From the Back Cover

From the Inside Flap

She wants me to give her up. You want me to give her up.

I know where the photograph is, and the other things.

I could send it back where it came from: "Here is an image of your daughter Diana, which I no longer require."

I have candles for emergencies. If I stand one up in a candlestick on the dining-table, I can feed it in from corner to corner. It has never been out of the frame since I ordered it in the summer of 1962.

This is the last time my fingers will touch her. The lady is for burning. I have reduced her to ashes, watching the precision of the act through a veil of tears.

Are You satisfied now? --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Westbow Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449721206
• ISBN 13: 9781449721206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536