And Finally: A Neurosurgeon's Reflections on Life (Paperback) - Henry Marsh

From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an entrancing and uplifting meditation on the gift of life.

'A book to treasure and reread' Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being

As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but even he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer.

In And Finally, he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient. As the days pass, his mind turns to his career, to the people and places he has known, and to creative projects still to be completed.

Yet he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and nature, by his love for his family, and - most of all - by what it is to be alive.

* A Daily Telegraph, The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year *

'Magnificent' Rachel Clarke

'Vividly wry and honest' The Times

'I admire this book enormously' Philip Pullman

'Enthralling' Guardian

About the Author

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 is 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.