Emilia Clarke reveals the book that helped grieve her father’s death
The 34-year-old actor talked about one particular book that helped her grieve for her father and understand life and death more deeply.
Emilia Clarke read a lot of books during the lockdown. (Source: emilia_clarke/Instagram) Emilia Clarke is an avid reader who likes to “read all the time”. Speaking to BBC’s Cultural Frontline programme, the Game of Thrones actor said, “I normally live in bookshops…I am unhappy if I’m not in the middle of a book.”
The 34-year-old actor talked about one particular book that helped her grieve for her father and understand life and death more deeply–Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? by late essayists and novelist Jenny Diski.
The book, a collection of 33 of the author’s best essays, was published posthumously. Diski passed away in 2016 at 68.
The non-fiction work, which is a study on human nature, was found by Clarke at her doorstep by chance. “Without being able to walk into a bookshop I signed up to a book subscription service, so every month I get delivered a book and I get very excited that I don’t know what it is. And this was one of them,” she said.
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