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Dying of the light

One Last Thing: How to Live with the End in Mind

By Wendy Mitchell

Bloomsbury £16.99

In July 2014, when she was a 56-year-old NHS administrator, Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with young-onset vascular dementia and Alzheimer's.

Since then, she has written two bestselling books about adapting to her ghastly disease, Someone I Used to Know and What I Wish People Knew About Dementia: From Someone Who Knows.

Know, knew, knows… Wendy (we are on first-name terms)

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