Grace is stuck in traffic gridlock. The weather is torrid, she is burning up with a hot flush and her life is falling apart. On impulse, she gets out of the car and walks away.
I almost couldn’t listen to The Bright Side of Life (Radio 4). Its subject matter – the BBC broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby speaking to his younger brother, the sculptor Nicholas, following Nicholas’s diagnosis with motor neurone disease (known as MND, or ALS) in February this year – felt too raw, too close, too unbearable.
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We are the animal that sees the future. We are the animal that imagines a hereafter, and alternatively, the numbness of nonexistence. We can foresee and foreshadow.
The novelist and playwright’s memoir is the heartbreaking story of losing his wife, Marilyn Imrie, to MND, but also a wonderful account of their time together