What Are You Going Through

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend comes a life-affirming novel about choosing to die.A woman visits a friend who is dying of cancer. Brilliant and stubborn, her friend makes a momentous request. She wishes to end her life on her own terms - and she wantsthe narrator's help. Stricken, she agrees. 'I promise,' says the friend, 'to make it as much fun as possible.'What follows is an extraordinary tale of a friendship given the greatest test: to witness, unflinching, its end. It is also a portrait of the way we live now, in a world endlessly troubled by crises, and the dramatically changing nature of human relationships in our time.[We hope to get quotes for this book but in the meantime please use these quotes.]Praise for The Friend'A true delight: I genuinely fear I won't read a better novel this year'Financial Times'A beautiful book . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art and love' Wall Street Journal'Delicious . . . An intensely pleasurable read because it is so accessible, capacious and clever'Sunday Times