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Description
'A Pilgrim's Progress for our time . . . A captivating narrative of discovery' Telegraph
'One of those books I find myself being (excuse the pun) evangelical about, pressing it into friends' hands like a Gideon's Bible' Sunday Times
*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, New Statesman, Irish Times, Elle and GQ*
Why are young people in Britain today turning to faith in our age of uncertainty?
Lamorna Ash was raised with about as much Christianity as most people in Britain these days: a basic knowledge of hymns and prayers received via a Church of England primary school education; occasional brushes with religious services. But once she started writing about her two friends' unexpected conversions, she began encountering a recurring phenomenon: in an age of disconnection and apathy, a new generation was discovering religion for itself.
In Don't Forget We're Here Forever, Ash embarks on a journey across Britain to meet those wrestling with Christianity today. Through interviews and her own deeply personal journey with religion, and from Evangelical youth festivals to Quaker meetings, a silent Jesuit retreat along the Welsh coastline to a monastic community in the Inner Hebrides, she investigates what drives young people in the twenty-first century to embrace Christianity. Written with lyrical beauty and sensitivity, this is a reminder of our universal need for nourishment of the soul.
'A book of rare quality. Ash is a writer of exceptional grace and energy' Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
'Spellbinding. An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in today' Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men
Product details
| Published | 08 May 2025 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781526663153 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The question this book asks concerns a whole generation . . . Not only a fascinating sociological study and religious memoir, but a profound look at the power of ritual and communion with others . . . “I feel so different to the person I was when I started this research,” Ash concludes. Readers may find they close this book feeling different too
Laura Hackett, Sunday Times
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A twenty-first-century version of Rural Rides, except that in place of William Cobbett's horse, Ash set off in a twenty-year-old Toyota Corolla . . . A captivating narrative of discovery . . . Don't Forget We're Here Forever is a Pilgrim's Progress for our time
Catherine Pepinster, Telegraph
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Meticulously crafted . . . Through her personal experiences and reflections Ash illuminates the inadequacy of mere statistical measures of religious attendance . . . The author pursues her quest through intelligent observation and exploratory conversation . . . These reflections on a “new generation's search for religion” will be rewarding reading for many
Alister McGrath, Times Literary Supplement
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A book of rare quality: Lamorna Ash is not only a writer of exceptional grace and energy, but a movingly good, compassionate listener
ROWAN WILLIAMS, former Archbishop of Canterbury
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Beautiful as a piece of writing, beautiful too as a record of a soul wrestling in the present with what faith might be
FRANCIS SPUFFORD
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Spellbinding . . . An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in today
KATY HESSEL, author of The History of Art Without Men
























