A woman visits a friend with terminal cancer. Brilliant, strong-willed and alone, the friend, facing death, makes a momentous request. Will she accompany her on a holiday where she will, without warning one day, take a lethal pill to end her life on her own terms? Utterly of our moment and timeless, this is a deeply moving affirmation of life in its current existential threat and in its ordinary tragedies. From the bestselling author of "The Friend".