Books:<i>Beast in the Shadows</i>

their application to the experience of serious illness.Frank starts by exploring 'vulnerable reading', 'which is how we read when some of it threatens who we are committed to believing we are'.Much of the book interrogates notions of vulnerability, consolation, suffering, differences, and transcendence.Vulnerable reading begins by seeing how a story mirrors our own suffering and realising that one's suffering is shared.Lear asks 'Who is it that can tell me who I am?'.A question we all face as we age.