A profound reflection on assisted death, and the enduring power of a marriage: an astonishing memoir from the celebrated author.

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the last year of his life Amy had struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to not submerge 'into the darkness of an expiring existence'. Written with piercing insight and wit, In Love is Bloom's intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer's, and then on becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death. 'Poignant, kind, funny and ultimately redemptive' - Alain de Botton, author of The Course of Love 'In Love is a thrillingly beautiful, laser-eyed book about love, life, mortality and, most remarkably, about the ways in which no one of the three can be separated from the others' - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours and A Home at the End of the World

"Staggeringly honest" - Guardian

"[Bloom] can make you laugh and break your heart in the same beat... A sharp observer and an immaculate stylist, Bloom balances a lack of sentimentality with the expression of her love for the man she felt slipping away and then helped to die... a more romantic statement does not exist" - The Times

"[A] courageous howl of a memoir ... It's also consistently funny ... Heartache makes [Bloom] savvy and sarcastic, a tone she pairs with a memorable descriptive shorthand ... This startling book teaches" - Observer

"Fascinating and moving ... a breath-taking story of dialogue and the search for truth" - Irish Times

"A remarkably ambitious book that blends art criticism, biography, and memoir... [De Freston's] lyrical prose finds beauty in the dark" - Elephant

"Sharply observed, often witty, eminently moving... [Bloom] has written about [her husband] with all the brave-spirited, undaunted love to which the book bears stupendous witness" - Guardian

"A memoir with a difference, one with an ethical, emotional and philosophical edge on most grief memoirs... Lively, accessible and deeply thoughtful, In Love is a truly important book" - Irish Times

"Not only riveting, but also practical and funny... [Bloom's] matter-of-fact attention to detail, sharp eye for the absurd and gift for simple, elegant language make her account of her harrowing experiences consistently absorbing... Remarkable" - TLS

"Evoke[s] the dreamy, almost unreal, nature of the process" - Prospect

"Moving... She doesn't pull her punches. There is no false rhetoric, no empty sentimentality. She tells it as it was" - Jewish Chronicle

"Bloom's aching account of loss is brave, tender and ultimately life-affirming... A beautiful account" - Daily Mail