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Dying for Beginners: Don't call me wise. Don't call me brave. Just call me curious.

Dying for Beginners: Don't call me wise. Don't call me brave. Just call me curious.

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ISBN10: 1911195409
ISBN13: 9781911195405
Publisher: Charlie Courtauld
Published: Feb 6 2017
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Former editor of Question Time, Charlie Courtauld was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, at the age of 34. As a passionate communicator, he wrote a highly personal diary of his experience of the illness, which was published as a newspaper column and blog. His wish to share his account of life with MS has led to this collection of thought-provoking snapshots - charting his hopes and fears about MS, as well the ordinary ups and downs of life as a father of three. Funny, irreverent, unflinchingly honest and at times very sad, Charlie intended his blog to be something of a guide to dying, but in doing this he has given us a life-affirming take on the preciousness of ordinary daily life, and an invitation to think seriously about the thing 'we prefer not to think about'. As Charlie puts it: There are no second tries or best-of-threes. So we don't want to mess it up. Thanks to this bloody MS, I am dying. Not immediately: more than a year. But fewer than five. And I want to get it right. Join me as I find out about this thing.

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