Dying for Beginners by Charlie Lucy Alexander Courtauld

Dying for Beginners by Charlie Lucy Alexander Courtauld

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.

Courtauld, Charlie Lucy Alexander: - Charlie Courtauld was a successful journalist, former editor of BBC's Question Time (with David Dimbleby) and former Comments Editor and columnist at The Independent newspaper. His last job was at Al Jazeera where he was the Editor of 'Frost Over the World' (with David Frost) for seven years, until he could no longer work. He suffered from progressive Multiple Sclerosis and kept a diary of the last two years of his life.

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ISBN 13	9781911195405
ISBN 10	1911195409
Title	Dying for Beginners
Author	Charlie Lucy Alexander Courtauld
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Charlie Courtauld
Year published	2017-02-06
Number of pages	194
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