Cory Taylor is the author of two celebrated novels: Me and Mr Booker, which was a regional winner in the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and My Beautiful Enemy which in 2014 was shortlisted for Australia's premier prize for fiction, the Miles Franklin Award. She died in July 2016. In 2017, Dying was shortlisted for the Stella Prize.
Unsparing in its insights and observations, breathtaking in its
courage and generosity. A thing of lightness and beauty
* * Guardian * *
Serves as a reminder, amid the omnishambles of today's world, that
life is transient and death final . . . Her luminous voice,
touching on the fragility of life, the randomness of death . . . is
one worth listening to
* * The Times * *
A manual for the discussion of death, full of wisdom, vulnerability
and reassurance . . . For all of Cory Taylor's acceptance of the
inevitable, Dying contains a will to live on, and a conviction that
for as long as we are remembered, we remain present
* * Times Literary Supplement * *
Lucid, precise, unsentimental prose . . . its clear-sighted
compassion might have something to teach any mortal
* * Irish Times * *
This small, powerful book offers a clean engagement with life's
conclusion: with clarity and courage, the author finds words to
escort us towards silence
*HILARY MANTEL*
A precise and moving memoir about the randomness of family, and an
admirable intellectual response to the randomness of life and
death. We should all hope for as vivid a looking-back, and as
cogent a looking-forward, when we reach the end ourselves
*JULIAN BARNES*
An inquiry into western society's dysfunctional relationship with
mortality, and a luminous account of one writer's search for a good
death of her own
* * Guardian * *
Brave and funny, rare and honest, it sees her address everything
from suicide (she considers it) to a bucket list (she doesn't have
one; she's happy with what she's done in her life) . . .
Beautiful
* * The Bookseller, July Book of the Month * *
An amazingly good and valuable book
*DIANA ATHILL*
A powerful, poignant and lucid last testament. At once an eloquent
plea for autonomy in death, and an evocation of the joys, sorrows
and precariousness of life
*MARGARET DRABBLE*
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