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Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry won the Nero Award for Non Fiction2025. Her father in law, David, who died in the autumn of 2022, only nine days after a cancer diagnosis, was in some ways a very ordinary man. Yet as Sarah and her husband Robert nursed him through his final days, they realised how extraordinary he really was.

This loving, clear-eyed and unforgettable book shows how death may be met and understood as a part of life – a universal experience that is terrible and beautiful, intimate and real, sometimes all at once.

‘… profound and completely gripping’ Mark Haddon.

The discussion will be led by Peter Hammond.