The Sunday Times Bestseller number one "An important book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. A must-read for the living" - Nigella Lawson.

At the age of thirty-six, just before completing a decade of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient fighting for his life. "When Breath Becomes Air" describes Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student questioning what makes a virtuous and meaningful life, to a neurosurgeon working at the core of human identity - the brain - and ultimately to a patient and a new father.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child while your own life is slipping away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide for us all. "When Breath Becomes Air" is a life-affirming reflection on confronting our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.

Nominated for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017.