Ivy on Stone

The Malaysian lawyer and author Matthew Thomas was introduced by his family to Anne when he was 29. Despite their initial trepidation, they got along very well and within a year they were married. Decades later, she would lie in a coffin at the same church they were married in.

Ivy on Stone is his memoir of their marriage, and of how he has struggled to come to terms with her death. This deeply personal tribute is not only a record of love and grief, but of a humanistic faith that transcends orthodoxy as he recounts the life they had.

"An inspiring story of love lost and the quest for meaning; all related through a life filled with fun, travel, joy, sadness, and the search for inner reconciliation."
- Sikeena Karmali, author of The Mulberry Courtesan and A House by the Sea

"An outstanding and inspiring paean to love at its supreme, tender best. Will move you to tears at the premature termination of a love affair par excellence."
- Tommy Thomas, author of Justice in the Wildernes

About the Author

Matthew Thomas was born in the Bronx and grew up in Queens. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where he received the Graduate Essay Award. He lives with his wife and twin children in New Jersey. We Are Not Ourselves is his first novel.