Dying

Reviews / Votes

Unsparing in its insights and observations, breathtaking in its courage and generosity. A thing of lightness and beauty * * Guardian * * Serves as a reminder, amid the omnishambles of today's world, that life is transient and death final . . . Her luminous voice, touching on the fragility of life, the randomness of death . . . is one worth listening to * * The Times * * An unflinching exploration into the experience, culture and language of dying . . . There is courage in abundance here. She looked death in the eye and, in her final months, produced a work that will help the rest of us approach our own demise with greater understanding, integrity and insight * * Observer * * The book rings louder in my imagination the more time I spend apart from it . . . Taylor's prose is clear and direct, with flashes of surpassing loveliness . . . it has a startling offhand grace * * New York Times * * A manual for the discussion of death, full of wisdom, vulnerability and reassurance . . . For all of Cory Taylor's acceptance of the inevitable, Dying contains a will to live on, and a conviction that for as long as we are remembered, we remain present * * Times Literary Supplement * * Lucid, precise, unsentimental prose . . . its clear-sighted compassion might have something to teach any mortal * * Irish Times * * This small, powerful book offers a clean engagement with life's conclusion: with clarity and courage, the author finds words to escort us towards silence -- HILARY MANTEL A precise and moving memoir about the randomness of family, and an admirable intellectual response to the randomness of life and death. We should all hope for as vivid a looking-back, and as cogent a looking-forward, when we reach the end ourselves -- JULIAN BARNES An inquiry into western society's dysfunctional relationship with mortality, and a luminous account of one writer's search for a good death of her own * * Guardian * * Brave and funny, rare and honest, it sees her address everything from suicide (she considers it) to a bucket list (she doesn't have one; she's happy with what she's done in her life) . . . Beautiful * * The Bookseller, July Book of the Month * *