With glowing compassion and luminous prose, Lamorna Ash (‘a new star of non-fiction’ William Dalrymple) explores why young people in Britain today are turning to faith in an age of uncertainty.

'A Pilgrim's Progress for our time . . . A captivating narrative of discovery' Telegraph

'One of those books I find myself being (excuse the pun) evangelical about, pressing it into friends’ hands like a Gideon’s Bible’ Sunday Times

'The stakes are so real and so recognisable . . . The most honest and moving account of the wrestle of faith that I have read since Christian Wiman's My Bright Abyss' Church Times

Why are young people in Britain today turning to faith in our age of uncertainty?

Lamorna Ash was raised with about as much Christianity as most people in Britain these days: a basic knowledge of hymns and prayers received via a Church of England primary school education; occasional brushes with religious services. But once she started writing about her two friends’ unexpected conversions, she began encountering a recurring phenomenon: in an age of disconnection and apathy, a new generation was discovering religion for itself.

In Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, Ash embarks on a journey across Britain to meet those wrestling with Christianity today. Through interviews and her own deeply personal journey with religion, and from Evangelical youth festivals to Quaker meetings, a silent Jesuit retreat along the Welsh coastline to a monastic community in the Inner Hebrides, she investigates what is driving Gen Z today to embrace Christianity. Written with lyrical beauty and sensitivity, this is a reminder of our universal need for nourishment of the soul.

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'A book of rare quality. Ash is a writer of exceptional grace and energy' Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury

'Spellbinding. An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in today' Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men

"The question this book asks concerns a whole generation . . . Not only a fascinating sociological study and religious memoir, but a profound look at the power of ritual and communion with others . . . “I feel so different to the person I was when I started this research,” Ash concludes. Readers may find they close this book feeling different too" - Sunday Times

"A twenty-first-century version of Rural Rides, except that in place of William Cobbett’s horse, Ash set off in a twenty-year-old Toyota Corolla . . . A captivating narrative of discovery . . . Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever is a Pilgrim’s Progress for our time" - Telegraph

"I finished Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever in 48 hours, because the stakes are so real and so recognisable . . . What lingers is the vulnerable expression of raw existential longing and the sheer beauty of the sentences . . . The most honest and moving account of the wrestle of faith that I have read since Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss, and I have never heard anyone describe the interior experience of prayer more powerfully" - Church Times

"Ash's first book, on the Cornish fishing community, written with wide-eyed wonder when she was in her early 20s, was excellent, and her second is even better . . . Ash has that great skill of writing narrative non-fiction in a nuanced way, subtly revealing the complexities of humanity" - Daily Mail

"Meticulously crafted . . . Through her personal experiences and reflections Ash illuminates the inadequacy of mere statistical measures of religious attendance . . . The author pursues her quest through intelligent observation and exploratory conversation . . . These reflections on a “new generation’s search for religion” will be rewarding reading for many" - Times Literary Supplement

"In this elegantly written work of non-fiction, she travels around Britain to see how our young people turned back to religion, exploring everything from Quaker meetings to monastic communities on the Hebridean Isles. We read a lot of waffle about "the youth today", and what they do (or don’t) believe: Ash paints a fascinating, and more realistic, picture" - Telegraph, The Best Books of 2025

"Radically empathetic, this is a reminder of the joy of collectivism and feeding the soul" - Elle, The Cult Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2025

"Inspired by the abrupt embrace of religion by two friends, Lamorna Ash has investigated how many young people are now turning towards faith, not away from it. Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever takes in every facet of this, from youth festivals put on by evangelicals to monasteries on Scottish islands. Along the way, she touches on her own relationship to religion too" - GQ, The Most Anticipated Books of 2025

"Britain’s youngsters are turning to faith in surprising numbers. Ash embarks on a journey around Britain, from Evangelical youth festivals to Quaker meetings to a silent Jesuit retreat to find out why" - Financial Times, What to Read in 2025

"Provides a very human portrait of young people wrestling with the idea of religion" - ELLE