In a series of wide ranging reflections, Geoff Dyer sets his own experience, having had a minor stroke, of late middle age (early old age?) against the last days and final and unfinished achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life.

With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he examines a series of notable endings and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Oh, and there's some stuff (not much) about tennis, too.

This book on last things - written while life as we know it seemed to be coming to an end - is also about how to go on living with art and beauty.

Written by Geoff Dyer
Read by David Schofield
Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 Show less