And Finally

A Neurosurgeon’s Reflections on Life

Henry Marsh

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English

Vintage
05 December 2023

Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Memoirs; True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; Popular science; Neurosciences

From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and what matters in the end.

From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an entrancing and uplifting meditation on the gift of life.

'A book to treasure and reread' Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being

As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but even he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer.

In And Finally, he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient. As the days pass, his mind turns to his career, to the people and places he has known, and to creative projects still to be completed.

Yet he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and nature, by his love for his family, and - most of all - by what it is to be alive.
* A Daily Telegraph, The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year
*

'Magnificent' Rachel Clarke

'Vividly wry and honest' The Times

'I admire this book enormously' Philip Pullman

'Enthralling' Guardian

By: Henry Marsh
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9781784709365
ISBN 10: 1784709360
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henry Marsh is a retired neurosurgeon and the bestselling author of Do No Harm and Admissions. Both books were Sunday Times No. 1 bestsellers, and have been translated into over thirty languages. Do No Harm was awarded the South Bank Sky Arts Award and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, Duff Cooper Prize, Wellcome Book Prize and Guardian First Book Award. Marsh was made CBE is 2010. Since retiring from full-time work in the NHS in 2015, he continued to operate and lecture abroad. He is married to the anthropologist Kate Fox, and lives in London and Oxford.

Reviews for And Finally: A Neurosurgeon’s Reflections on Life

Henry Marsh may have retired from medicine but let's hope he keeps producing books as good as this one, which enthral as well as teach. * Observer * [And Finally] is unexpectedly fun, and the author is pretty much irresistibly likeable... diagnoses and remissions are described with wonderful candour... [and Marsh's] discussion of end-of-life care and assisted dying is the best essay I have read on the subject. * Guardian * [Marsh is] deeply reflective, the result is a bit like sitting in the pub with the smartest person you know. * Spectator * Beautifully written... A thoughtful journey into his experience as a doctor-turned-patient, enlivened with a wonderful black humour and a gimlet eye for comforting nonsense... One couldn't wish for a better guide. -- Steven Poole * Daily Telegraph, 5 stars * His dignified introspection is a joy. -- Clare Chambers, author of SMALL PLEASURES