Coda - Simon Gray

Coda - Simon Gray (2008)

Writer Simon Gray, chooses in this memoir to follow what happens after being diagnosed with a lung cancer, after having routine scans to follow his aortic aneurysm. Told by one of the doctors that he had a year to live, he goes with his wife to Crete to rest and recover, after a session of radiotherapy.

Not entirely bleak in nature, I was amused at his description of various doctors he encountered on the way. I only chose this book, as it was on a list provided by the library online, I wasn't looking for a sad story at all.

It was only today, while searching for the book cover, that I read a small review, where it said that it was thought that Simon Gray died quickly and his doctor had said it was his aorta that popped, so the lung cancer never got him in the end.

2/5