How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to England and a successful media and academic career, then a cancer diagnosis and its unresolved consequences. A profoundly moving, comic and original account by a stunning literary talent. 

'Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it.' Times Literary Supplement 

'Funny, painful, and brilliant... Fantastically well written... I hope that it will soon take its place among the Lolitas of Tehran and the Booksellers of Kabul' Tim Judah, Observer