"Touching, funny and life-affirming." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
How Shall I Tell the Dog?
And Other Final Musings
by Miles Kington
A July 2009 Indie Next List Great Read
Lauded by British comedy legends like Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Joanna Lumley, Miles Kington was a much beloved humorist, musician and broadcaster in England who wrote a popular daily column in the Independent since 1987. When he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he didn't tell his colleagues or editors at the paper. Instead, he delivered his columns as usual and decided to write a final book.
In the forms of letters written to his agent Gill Coleridge, Kington's musings range from the idea of self-help book about self-pity to the sudden irony of the popular book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, to creating an outrageous funeral video, to the prospect of being outlived by his dog, Berry.
The result: a book that is winning rave advance reviews and is being embraced by booksellers who declare "Imagine someone with the wit and playfulness of Dave Barry writing a memoir as heartbreaking and personal as Tuesdays with Morrie."
