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Simon Stephenson is a writer and doctor who lives in London. Previous writing honours include being a runner-up in the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition and being selected for BBC Scotland's 'Tartan Shorts' scheme. For several years he earned his living as a television screenwriter. Let Not the Waves of the Sea is his first book.'Enviably well written ...one perfect sentence after another'
FT
'Like William Styron's moving memoir of depression, Darkness Visible, there is profound empathy here'
welovethisbook.com
A fine meditation on what is salvaged from loss. A humane and manly book
Janice Galloway, Scotland on Sunday
[A] moving and honest account...the book contains countless heartbreaking moments
Sunday Times
A beautifully crafted portrait of bereavement that tells us something new about the landscape, people, customs and hardship that he encountered along the way
Sunday Telegraph
Profoundly moving...it is impossible not to be touched
Observer
As much a celebration of Dominic's life and the brothers' relationship as it is a lament for his passing
Daily Mail
'An immensely moving, truthful and honest elegy. Stephenson has created something extraordinary'
Neel Mukherjee
'An extraordinary and courageous book'
Alex Preston
Remarkable... seldom will you find grief anatomised quite so acutely and honestly
John Preston, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year
'A remarkably moving and compelling read. The travelogue and biography is a celebration of his brother's life and deals courageously with the journey to understand his death in the Asian tsunami on Ko Phi Phi'
Andrew Dixon, Scotland on Sunday