A SHORT HISTORY OF FALLING | EVERYTHING I OBSERVED ABOUT LOVE WHILST DYING

A Short History of Falling like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places.

We keep an old shoebox, Gill and I, nestled in a drawer in our room. It s filled with thirty-three birthday cards for our two young sons: one for every year I ll miss until they re twenty-one. I wrote them because, since the end of 2017, I ve been living with and dying from motor neurone disease.