Mum Dying, the Musical

- Blurb -

There has long been a Great Silence in our society about death, as palliative care doctor Kathryn Mannix says in her bestselling book With the End in Mind (2018). Coronavirus has changed all that. Death has broken out of the confines of hospitals and funeral homes and is running wild through our streets and public places. We cannot escape its shadow. We have no choice but to confront the terror and grief. And with that confrontation comes the strength to cope. Mum Dying: The Musical is a tale of death and the madness it can inflict on families. An eccentric, vivacious Irish matriarch with terminal cancer is nursed at home by her ten very different adult children. Families are a delicate construct of complication and contradiction. The detonation of death can blast relationships, blacken personalities, leave people wounded and bleeding and staggering around in shock. The book mirrors the fracturing of a life struck by cancer and a family struck by grief. But it' s not all doom and gloom. There' s humour in the honest appraisal of flawed humanity dealing with the worst thing that can happen to it and there' s hope in the bigger picture of love, forgiveness and perhaps life beyond death.