When Adrian Beardsley is diagnosed with cancer at age forty-nine, no-one can imagine how quickly death will come, nor the challenges it will present. Mary Dwyer details with courage and candour the substance of a marriage, a family, a business partnership, a spiritual journey and how she and her children faced profound loss and grief. This moving memoir of lifes most mysterious experience brings us into the light of an eternal grace. A companion for the dying, for those losing a loved one, and for all of us wising to arrive at our own deaths well-prepared.