A moving memoir in the bestselling tradition of Blake Morrison, Joan Didion and Ruth Picardie. In 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, suffering serious head injuries and left in a permanent vegetative state. She reconnects with the bright, funny, adoring brother she lost and is finally able to see the end of his life as it really was - a last act of love. Now in paperback.