And Finally

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 PLEASURESAnd Finally is a close and courageous look at the prospect of death by someone who has seen it more clearly and more often than most of us, and who writes with great fluency and grace. Henry Marsh is a great neurosurgeon: he is also a very fine writer. I admire this book enormously. – Philip Pullman, author of HIS DARK MATERIALSA beautifully written collection of memories, thoughts and life lessons… And Finally will no doubt prompt others to contemplate their own existence and, more importantly, recognise what is truly worth living for. * Financial Times *Vividly wry and honest… this slender, elegant book… is very much a memoir of enlightenment; the humbling, late in life, of a man of great skill and status… A wise and warm narrator, and his book will bring comfort to many - and educate doctors. – Melanie Reid * The Times *[A] fascinating unusually revelatory, ultimately conflicted and poignant account. * Times Literary Supplement *Marsh… writes with appealing candour about his reluctance to investigate his own symptoms… [and he] is often drily funny. * Literary Review *

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 in 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.