Books by Kathryn Mannix
“Mannix writes that two days in our life are fewer than 24 hours and stand like bookends: birth and death. With over 20 years of experience being a palliative care doctor, she set out to write a book (with the approval of the relevant ethics committee) which collects her experience of being a doctor in those final days of life. It’s extremely elegant and eloquent. What struck me was the humility of it—I finished the book having half-forgotten that it was written by a doctor.” Read more...
Sophie Ratcliffe, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Kathryn Mannix were recommended
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers
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Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
by Geoffrey Hill -
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Late Fragments: Everything I Want To Tell You (About This Magnificent Life)
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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
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I Capture The Castle
by Dodie Smith
The best books on Grief, recommended by Sophie Ratcliffe
The best books on Grief, recommended by Sophie Ratcliffe
We often think of bereavement in terms of deep melancholy or gentle sadness, but “grief behaves badly and grief is risk-taking”, says Sophie Ratcliffe, Oxford literary critic and author of the memoir The Lost Properties of Love. Here, she recommends five books that may act as a balm for those who have lost someone, and says that the act of reading—any book, any poem—can be consoling.
