Very Easy Death

<p><i>A Very Easy Death </i>has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving day-by-day recounting of her mother's death shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence (<i>The Sunday Telegraph</i>). Powerful touching and sometimes shocking this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget. <p/><i>Translated by Patrick O'Brian</i></p>