The course book is in short chapters suitable for individual reading or group study. There are short bible readings and questions for meditation and reflection at the end of each chapter.

Sheila Cassidy's honest and wise books on suffering and healing have made her one of the UK's best-loved and most popular writers on pastoral care and personal growth. She is widely known for her work in the hospice movement and, as a young doctor who survived torture for daring to give medical care to an opponent of the Pinochet regime in Chile.