A week or so ago I received a box of books from Bloomsbury. These were my author copies of my final book with Wendy Mitchell. The book is entitled One Last Thing – How to Live With The End in Mind, and it is out in paperback on February 29. I felt very emotional as I opened them, more so than I had done with any other box of books, including my own novel.
This is a book that Wendy and I are very proud of. It tackles big issues surrounding death, progressive and terminal illnesses, and a large part of this book is the case for assisted dying.
Many of you will know that I have worked with Wendy for the last eight years and during that time we have written three books together, Somebody I Used To Know, What I Wish People Knew About Dementia, and this final book, One Last Thing. These books have had successes that we could never have dreamt of when we met for the first time in 2016 at Kings Cross Station in London, me in my ‘wacky’ coat, as Wendy always puts it (it was a leopard print coat…