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Somewhere Towards the End, by Diana Athill

‘Diana Athill is not just old, she is very old, in her 89th year as she wrote this, her fifth autobiographical book. We have very few accounts written from a perspective such as hers: deaf now, feet and legs making moving difficult, caring - at a time when she should be caring for herself - for her ailing and mostly bedridden companion, the Jamaican playwright Barry Reckford. She can tell us better than almost anyone what will be left to us as we approach dying, and death.’ Read the review at the London Telegraph.

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