The title of the book comes from a dream Marian had in which a smiling Lucy tells her that she’s been sitting in a meadow and ‘If you sit very still you can hea Photo: Photo: MR photography / flickr CC

Tim Newell reviews a powerful and moving account of loss, spiritual restoration and the possibility of transformation

If you sit very still…

Tim Newell reviews a powerful and moving account of loss, spiritual restoration and the possibility of transformation

by Tim Newell 11th May 2012

If You Sit Very Still explores the hidden area of traumatic loss, brutality and the restoration of the human spirit. In 1994, twenty-one years after her unexplained disappearance, Lucy Partington’s remains were discovered in the basement of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.