O Love How Deep: A Tale of Three Souls

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 into 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 realised th...