Description As featured on BBC Radio 4 ‘Funny and touching’ Sunday Times ‘Extraordinary’ Observer‘Full of both wisdom and humour’ Julia Samuel‘Funny, moving, brave’ Jeremy Bowen‘I had the privilege to conduct Simon’s last broadcast interview – knowing his wise words on the page could live on afterwards’ Emma Barnett *****READER REVIEWS ‘Simon’s cheerful voice comes through every page’‘An absolute gift of a book … This book has the potential to change your life’‘Stunning’ It isn’t quite ‘Don’t buy any green bananas’. But it’s close to ‘Don’t start any long books’. In his mid-40s, Simon Boas was diagnosed with incurable cancer – it had been caught too late, and spread around his body. But he was determined to die as he had learned to live – optimistically, thinking the best of people, and prioritising what really matters in life. In A Beginner’s Guide to Dying Simon considers and collates the things that have given him such a great sense of peace and contentment, and why dying at 46 really isn’t so bad. And for that reason it’s also only partly about ‘dying’. It is mostly a hymn to the joy and preciousness of life, and why giving death a place can help all of us make even more of it.
