A Beginner's Guide to Dying

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.