O Love How Deep

After twenty-six-year-old Australian David Carpenter - a psychiatrist and neurological researcher himself - had a breakdown in his first year at Cambridge his therapist told him Go to the Anglican Chaplaincy investigate Christianity and have a love affair with a nice Christian girl. He did precisely that. Diana was only twenty. They grew so close that when after four years she married someone else he returned home devastated. They did not meet again for eight years. He realized then that he still loved her and she him. He asked her to break her marriage for him. Instead she sent him away indefinitely. In her last letter she begged him to give her up. She said that Oxford had rejected her dissertation. She was thirty-three with her academic career now shattered. This is the poignant story of three hyper-intelligent cosmopolitan and highly-educated people fighting their way through to genuine faith hope and love in the modern world.