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The Easy Way Out
The Easy Way Out | Steven Amsterdam
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'The Easy Way Out is a poignant, sharply funny story that raises questions about life, death, and love, with plenty of heart and dark humour' Louise O'Neill Evan's job is to help people die. Evan is a nurse - a suicide assistant. His job is legal - just. He's the one at the hospital who hands out the last drink to those who ask for it. Evan's friends don't know what he does during the day. His mother, Viv, doesn't know what he's up to at night. And his supervisor suspects there may be trouble ahead. As he helps one patient after another die, Evan pushes against the limits of the law - and his own morality. And with Viv increasingly unwell, his love life complicated, to say the least, Evan begins to wonder who might be there for him, when the time comes. From an award-winning author, The Easy Way Out is a brilliantly funny and exquisitely sad novel that gets to the heart of one of the most difficult questions each of us may face: would you help someone die?
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Onioons
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"Myrna was a photographer who got rich on a book of portraits of children from around the world. Even she ultimately decided that photographs of children were twee. 'If I had the strength today, I'd go back and take pictures of all their grandparents. That would be a different book'". Amsterdam's take on euthanasia is as engaging as his look at climate change in The Things We Didn't See Coming. Thoughtful, quirky, memorable.

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Onioons
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It's been too long, Litsy! A reading weekend is long overdue so I'm kicking off my own personal 24in48 challenge by finishing this little gem of a book... Can't do next weekend so for once in my life I'll be ahead of things 🙃

megnews I‘m doing my own 24in48 this weekend too! With 3 days off and up to 10 inches of snow on the way, wild horses won‘t pull me away from my reading. I have lots of books I want to finish up. 5y
Onioons @megnews Whoop! Excellent plan! Keep cosy & enjoy 📚🔥 5y
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Liberty
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I saw Sarah Schmidt rave about this, so I had to have it, because I am pretty sure she is my long-lost Australian twin. 🖤

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Hoopiefoot
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Power's out on this stormy morning. Time to catch up on my netgalley reads.

Notafraidofwords I hope it comes back on! 8y
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Forgetmenot
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Really cleverly written and very thought provoking. It's a book that will stay with me a long time.. it's a story but written which a really good depth of feeling in respect of both the helper and also the helpee. I want to read more of Steven,s books

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AlexEatsBooks
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I'm working today so my Read and Eat entry is a sugar and caffeine fix to get me through the rest of the day! I've just started Steven Amsterdam's new novel - Easy Way Out. He's one of my favourite Australian writers and this one is proving to be just as good as his others! #septemberphotochallenge #daythree