A Beginner's Guide to Dying

As featured on BBC Radio 4

Funny and touchingSunday Times

ExtraordinaryObserver
Full of both wisdom and humour Julia Samuel
Funny, moving, brave Jeremy Bowen
I had the privilege to conduct Simons last broadcast interview - knowing his wise words on the page could live on afterwards Emma Barnett

*****READER REVIEWS

Simons cheerful voice comes through every page
An absolute gift of a book ... This book has the potential to change your life
Stunning

It isnt quite Dont buy any green bananas. But its close to Dont 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 Beginners 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 isnt so bad. And for that reason its 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.