In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

A powerful and emotional account of Amy Bloom's journey with her husband Brian, who chose to end his life with the help of Dignitas due to terminal illness. The book explores the complex ethical issues surrounding assisted death and offers a poignant reflection on the value of human relationships.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 02 February 2023
Publisher: Granta Books

In Love: A Poignant Love Letter to Bloom's Husband and a Passionate Outpouring of Grief

New York Times Bestseller

A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships.

In January 2020, Amy Bloom embarked on a journey with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he received assistance from Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill, and for the last year of his life, Amy struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to avoid immersing himself in the darkness of an expiring existence. Written with piercing insight and wit, In Love is Bloom's intimate, authentic, and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer's, and then becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death.

Poignant, kind, funny, and ultimately redemptive - Alain de Botton, author of The Course of Love

In Love is a thrillingly beautiful, laser-eyed book about love, life, mortality, and, most remarkably, about the ways in which none of the three can be separated from the others - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours and A Home at the End of the World.

Weight: 173g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783788019