Prince Harry will appear in a live, online event with physician and author Gabor Maté to discuss “living with loss and the importance of personal healing,” Penguin Random House announced in a news release.
Harry’s memoir, Spare, was published last month, and instantly shot to the top of bestseller lists in the U.S. and U.K. The book recounts his reaction to the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who was killed in a car crash in 1997. A reviewer for Kirkus called the memoir “a harrowing, sporadically self-serving account of life in and away from the British monarchy.”
Harry will speak with Maté, the Canadian doctor who has written extensively about trauma and mental health in books such as When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.
Maté’s most recent book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture, was published last September by Avery. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus praised the book as “an important, insightful book explaining how society became a vortex of mental illness and offering possible remedies.”
The online event, which will take place on March 4 at noon EST, is sponsored by Random House, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, and Indigo Books & Music. Tickets are available at Random House’s website.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
