Oliver Soden

Caring for the dying in a world of Zoom

James Runcie’s harrowing account of his wife’s last days during lockdown includes blackly comic descriptions of trying to follow nursing instructions on YouTube

James and Marilyn in Trieste in 2018. [Courtesy of James Runcie]

  • Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage

    James Runcie

    Bloomsbury, pp. 224, £12

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