In this short, powerful, moving book, Philip Gould, who was one of Tony Blair’s advisers, tells us what it’s like to know you are going to die. Of course, in theory we all know we’re going to die. And most of us are, at some level, in denial. Here, Gould tells us what it is like to have this denial stripped away. He is diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus. At first, the treatment seems to be successful. But then the cancer comes back. Gould is told he has three months to live. There’s something about the way he faces this that will be valuable to every reader. Death, he shows us, is what gives life its context. Reading this might change the way you live.
