More than eyes can see is an account of a-nine-month journey made by the author and his family into some of the world's HIV/AIDS epicentres. Sent by the Salvation Army to bear witness to the work they were doing in response to the pandemic, Rhidian Brook, his wife and two children, follow a trail of devastation through communities still shattered and being broken by this disease: truck-stop sex-workers in Kenya, victims of rape in Rwanda, child-headed families in Soweto, children of prostitutes in India, farmers who sold blood for money in China. It is a remarkable journey among the infected and the affected through a world that, despite seeming on the brink of collapse, is being held together, not by power, politics, guns and money; but by small acts of kindness performed by unsung people choosing to live in hope.
Rhidian Brook is a previous winner of the Somerset Maughan Award, a Betty Trask Award winner and his first two novels were published by Harper Collins. He is a high profile radio broadcaster on Radio 4. His film, 'Mr Harvey Lights a Candle' with Timothy Spall was seen by millions in 2005 on BBC 1.