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‘Powerful, humane and wise’ JULIA SAMUEL ‘Everyone should read it’ NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Beautiful … This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it’ PHILIPPA PERRY Most of us have a conversation we’re avoiding.

From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better – more honestly, more confidently and without regret.

A child coming out to their parent. A family losing someone to terminal illness. A friend noticing the first signs of someone’s dementia. A careers advisor and a teenager with radically different perspectives.

There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for one another. Why do we so often come away from those times feeling like we could have done more, or should have been braver in the face of discomfort? Why do we skirt the conversations that might matter most?

By bringing together stories with a lifetime’s experience working in medicine and the newest psychology, Mannix offers lessons for how we can better speak our mind and help when others need to.

Kathryn Mannix’s ‘With the End in Mind’ was a Sunday Times bestseller the weeks ending 6 January 2018, 13 January 2018 and 3 February 2018.

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Critic reviews

‘This gentle-hearted, engaging and intimately readable book is so full of wisdom and compassion. Everyone should read it’
Nigella Lawson
‘Kathryn Mannix has a gift for cutting through the noise and helping us realise what is most important. In a world that never stops talking, this book celebrates and demonstrates the curative power of listening. It is powerful, humane and wise’
Julia Samuel
‘This is a beautiful book … Too often people want their friends and relations to take all the difficult talk to a therapist, there has to be more than the professional listeners who know how to have a mutually impactful beautiful, tender conversation. This is a book for everyone … I actually feel listened to by reading it’
Philippa Perry
‘Kathryn Mannix is our modern-day prophet … This is an essential book for anyone interested in themselves and their fellow humans’
Greg Wise
‘I adore Kathryn's writing. Always sensitive, always thoughtful, an essential read for those looking to connect’
Cariad Lloyd
‘Kathryn Mannix is a natural born storyteller, and there is so much wisdom, tenderness and love packed into this profoundly beautiful book … Her words brim with grace. I loved this book so very much.’
Rachel Clarke
‘The book’s greatest strength is not just the information it shares, but the pure humanity it shows; the halting, fearful, imperfect conversations between people who are all doing their best and sometimes not getting it right. The gems of wisdom apply to all situations, whether someone is at the end of their life or has had a bad day at work … Compassionate, warm and wise’
The Times
‘Like having a long and rewarding conversation with a really good friend … Perhaps the most important component in all of the chapters, however, is the telling of stories … As with Mannix’s first book, there are many moving tales within these pages … Wise, gentle and profound’
Joanna Cannon, The Guardian, Book of the Day
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Thank you for this wonderful audio book. I recently studied a EOL and palliative post graduate module and Kathryn Mannix was recommended as a resource for communication. You did not disappoint, wonderfully powerful narration. Not just for the module but for life and career skills. Cant wait to start, with the end in mind. 🙏🙏

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Thank you for sharing a lifetime of experience with the world. A simple yet complex and very profound concept.

Wisdom

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Kind, measured advice on approaching 'tender' conversations - a term I love - and indeed any conversation or relationship where there is a risk of emotions running high. More than a way to listen, Dr Mannix's book is a way to live - lovingly, openly, curiously. I read this as a health professional and I think - and hope - it will change the way I approach consultations and interactions in personal relationships; the skills are applicable to anyone with a family, friends, customers or patients - in short, everyone.

A wonderful listen

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Loved the pace, the voice of the author, the many valuable lessons and all the advice. Incredibly useful

Must read for anyone who supports others

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Loved listening to the author convey so much more than the words...

The understanding that is so much deeper and richer than scratching the surface. Yet it is just that it is a begining for everyone, as suits their recap and starting point.

There are beautifully crafted expressions that lift the words off the pages. As if their arrival with the ear is coordinated, like birds in flight together, each arriving momentarily delayed from one another, but appropriately so.

This builds the learning, appreciation and resonance with the wisdom released.

An infusion of many years and peoples, struggles, gifts, experiences, where each is a lifetimes work... beautifully and humbly united one with another.

If ever the expression that something is greater than the sum of the parts is true, it is of this.

A must read, that awakens our need for tenderness that restores our response to be more human with one another.

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