Uncovering Hidden Healing: How Chris Jones Transforms Grief into Hope in ‘Legs Heart Minds’

Uncovering Hidden Healing: How Chris Jones Transforms Grief into Hope in 'Legs Heart Minds'

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Reviewed by Linda Lowen

cover of Legs Heart Minds: Loss and Its Remedies by Chris Jones; image of person walking away from camera carrying bag of soccer ballsChris Jones knows how to play the game. In his memoir Legs Hearts Minds: Loss and Its Remedies (Random House; June 2026), the Canadian author and longtime sports journalist kicks off with an electric moment: the discovery of his wife’s infidelity.

How this impacts his family, children, career, and sense of self is only half the story. The other half is a paean to soccer, specifically Burnley F.C., a professional football club in Lancashire, England, which plays its home games at Turf Moor, a stadium that—he later reveals—is part of his immigrant English/Welsh family lore.

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