After
Fourth Estate $29.95 pb, 300 pp, 9780999162316
Memoir
After by Nikki Gemmell
by Gillian Dooley •
In 2015, Nikki Gemmell’s mother, Elayn, took an overdose of painkillers. Gemmell’s new book, After, chronicles the difficult process of confronting her mother’s death and resolving the anguish it brought to her and her children. It is also an impassioned appeal for changes in Australia’s laws on the right to die.
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