Speakers: Amy Bloom, Devorah Baum

New York Times bestseller Amy Bloom has won international acclaim for her novels, essays, children’s books and short stories, with Roddy Doyle calling her “one of the USA’s most consistently brilliant writers”. Her powerful new non-fiction work, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss is an illuminating story of two people whose love and shared life experiences led them to find a courageous way to part—and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss. When her husband Brian was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, they were forced to confront a part of life we so often shy away from: its ending. Determined to die on his feet, they made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace. The award-winning author of Lucky Us and Come To Me joins us online live from the US to discuss this heart-breaking and surprising memoir, described by Meg Wolitzer as “full of everything that matters…In Love is gripping, moving, and beautifully told”.