A week after her forty-first birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. An unmissably book of heart, intellect and fierce insight into the sicknesses and, occasionally, the perverse glories of our contemporary world. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2020