Description:
SOME THINGS IN LIFE ARE TOO SERIOUS TO JOKE ABOUT. ASSISTED DYING IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
Brief description: Guy Kennaway is a writer of fiction and memoir. He is best known for his novels ONE PEOPLE, about village life in Jamaica, BIRD BRAIN, about a bunch of optimistic pheasants, and for his memoir TIME TO GO about killing his mother (with her permission). His novel, THE ACCIDENTAL COLLECTOR, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2021. His latest memoir is FOOT NOTES, a broad comedy about race and nationality which he wrote with his relative Hussein Sharif. And his most recent novel is Good Scammer. 'In all my writing my aim is to delight and amuse, ' Kennaway has said. 'Hopefully I make people laugh out loud. Laughter is our most effective weapon in the battle against the difficulties and struggles of life. If I can transport my reader to a happy, joyful world, my mission is successful.'
Review Quotes:
A corker which should keep book clubs arguing for years. -- Lynn Barber ― The Observer
The funniest, sickest, most moving and provocative book about dying you are likely to read before you-know-who comes calling. -- Alan Taylor ― The Herald
This is a remarkable, timely and important book about assisted dying. It's also humanely clear-eyed, shrewd and surprisingly funny -- William Boyd
.not just a darkly diverting testament to old age, but a remarkably hopeful book. -- Helen Davies ― The Sunday Times
Time to Go is a sometimes manipulative but mostly hilarious book - a marshalling cry for the cause of legalising assisted suicide. Kennaway believes the law is hopelessly inadequate for the times we live in. Choosing how you die is nothing less than a human right. It's just not acknowledged as one. But it surely will be soon. -- Laura K. Jones ― The Spectator
This is such an extraordinary book. It's bracingly honest, blisteringly funny, and then it knocks you sideways with its sadness and straightens you up with its good sense. Bit of a rollercoaster, really. -- Deborah Moggach
I finished Time to Go, wonderful book, a literary masterpiece. Brutal, but you don't get the rose without the thorns. Lol funny and genuinely moving, an honourable tribute. Susie's chapter is exquisite. It's Laurence Durrell with a hacksaw. -- Mat Collishaw