George Saunders: Congratulations, by the way [2017] paperback Condition:New Henry VII aimed to provide

Henry VII aimed to provide stability when he married his daughter

You will never breathe the same again

Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate

becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present

But what happened when he came home covered with medals was almost worse

George Saunders: Congratulations, by the way [2017] paperback Condition:New Henry VII aimed to provide'Here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness' Three months after George Saunders gave a convocation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million times. Why?