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The acclaimed novelist and biographer has written, extremely candidly, about the death of her father from old age and the death of her sister-in-law of cancer. This doesn't really follow on from her brilliant Hidden Lives (the story of her mother and grandmother) but is more closely related to the fictionalization of her mother-in-law's old age which we read about in Have the Men Had Enough? It is not a happy book, but an examination of her feelings about the dying of these two people, for one of whom she felt an overwhelming sense of duty but never really loved, and the other of whom she loved desperately and hoped to make her passing easier. While not light reading, it is brilliantly written and compulsively readable. (Kirkus UK)
