In 2008, Marion Coutts' husband, the art critic Tom Lubbock, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told that he had not more than two years to live. }The Iceberg{ is an unflinching, honest explanation of staring death in the face, finding solace in strange places, finding beauty and even joy in the experience of dying. Suitable for fans of literary memoirs and books by Rachel Cusk, Joan Didion and Jeanette Winterson