In Love : A Memoir of Love and Loss

Bloom, Amy

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the last year of his life Amy had struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to not submerge ’into the darkness of an expiring existence’.

Written with piercing insight and wit, In Love is Bloom’s intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer’s, and then on becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death. A poignant love letter to Bloom’s husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships.

Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9781783788996
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2022
Kirjastoluokka: 99.1 Elämäkerrat
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): English non-fiction new 221217a