A Beginner’s Guide to Dying: The Sunday Times Bestseller, ‘Has anyone ever written a more inspirational paean to the joy of life?’ Daily Mail

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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.