- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (25 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141021691
- ISBN-13: 978-0141021690
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 820,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mail on Sunday
'An astonishing testament to the human ability to overcome the most terrible tragedies'
Sun
'The engaging story of how Lucas learnt to deal with grief and guilt and find happiness'
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I sat on the grass bank outside my high school, waiting for my mother, or Tate as we all called her, to come and pick me up. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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I sat on the grass bank outside my high school, waiting for my mother, or Tate as we all called her, to come and pick me up. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Carry Me Home begins with a terrible personal tragedy and then weaves an intimate journey of healing and acceptance to spiritual wholeness. Lucas was brought up as an atheist - cynical about all things spiritual. At seventeen, she suffered a terrible accident that killed her mother and left her emotionally scared. This is the inspiring story of how a brave and determined woman transmuted pain and guilt into a spiritual realization that shines through at the end. The journey is not easy and take a long time, but it is a journey that she successfully makes. You will find no dogma here, just an honest and open account of the process of individuation that we all face at some point in our spiritual evolution. Lucas writes beautifully in a book that I found as engrossing as it was rewarding.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In this little gem of a book, which will delight anyone who is seriously interested in living a more awakened life, Catherine Lucas weaves a compelling tale of personal tragedy, growth, strength, and hope. A powerful account of Lucas's own life story, Carry Me Home seamlessly combines a gripping narrative with penetrating psychological and spiritual insights that I found both instructive and enchanting. After describing how mainstream culture's advice on how to heal from horrific personal loss (stiff upper lip, work hard, forget about it, get on with you life) failed and betrayed her, Lucas unfolds her discovery of the many unspoken and undiscovered truths that only life and her own open heart could teach her. By seeking truth ahead of respectability, and even ahead of feeling better, she was led to real healing--and real knowledge of her own true self. The integrity with which Lucas reveals the unvarnished facts of her own journey is stunningly refreshing. I found it to be an enthralling and enlightening read by a master story-teller and teacher.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What happens when a girl not only is next to her mother when she is killed in a car accident but also believes she is responsible for her death? How does the human psyche make sense of this kind of tragedy? This is a story of how one young woman struggles to carry on her life in the aftermath of her mother's death. This is a story of a soul seeking peace and discovering God. It is a beautifully written account of a journey of uncovering that connection to the Divine, to the deepest self and to the world.
Catherine's story has had a profound effect on me in that it has confirmed my belief that no matter what happens to us in life there is an intelligence deep within us that sustains and survives.
Dianne Chipperfield, Psychotherapist
Catherine's story has had a profound effect on me in that it has confirmed my belief that no matter what happens to us in life there is an intelligence deep within us that sustains and survives.
Dianne Chipperfield, Psychotherapist
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Working through the impossible
Catherine shows us the way she eventually could manage living with excrutiatingly painful memories of her mother's death and her own accidental part in it. Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2009 by Alice Durrie
Life Changing Book
I was moved to tears on many an occasion when I read this book nearly in tears now at wanting to write a review. Read more
Published on 11 Dec 2007 by D. Davies
A true spiritual journey
This book is a true spirtual gem. Not new age rubbish about candles and crystals. Or religious dogma about set beliefs. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2007 by Tom Pryce, IT Consultant
inspiration
This is an amazing book which I have read more than once, it is so inspiring. When I first read it someone close to me had just died in tragic circumstances and I found her... Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2007 by H. Burgess
Touched my Heart and Soul
I truely unforgettable and inspiring book that once you start reading it you just can not put it down. Read more
Published on 14 Sep 2007 by Ms. A. J. Franklin
Deeply affecting on many levels
This is truly one of those books that is virtually un-put-downable once you start reading it.
Deeply moving, real and honest right from start to finish, I felt as... Read more
Deeply moving, real and honest right from start to finish, I felt as... Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2007 by J. Blakemore
Brilliant!
I loved this book so much. A friend gave it to me in hardback for Christmas after she had raved about it last year. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2007 by Claire Peters
Very Inspiring!
Got given this in hardback for Christmas by a friend who raved about it when she read it last year and it is wonderful. Carry Me Home takes the reader on a profound journey. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2007 by Amanda Harrison
Absolutely brilliant!
As you can probably guess I loved this book! I don't normally write reviews but I felt so inspired by Carry Me Home that I wanted to encourage everyone else to read it too. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2007 by Claire Peters
Carry Me Home - a spiritual autobiography for our times
Catherine's Lucas' book is the most compelling and well-written spiritual autobiography that I have read for a long time. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 2005 by Adrian Rance
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