Sarah Perry & Amy Key: Death of an Ordinary Man

Sarah Perry's father-in-law David died in the autumn of 2022, only nine days after a cancer diagnosis, nursed by Sarah and her husband Robert. Death of an Ordinary Man (Jonathan Cape) describes those last few days, in prose which Mark Haddon has called ‘beautiful and profound and completely gripping’.

Perry was in conversation with Amy Key, author of Arrangements in Blue (Penguin, 2023).