Don’t Put Yourself on Toast
Freddy Taylor
Short Books, £12.99, 192 pages
The finality of the hospital bed arriving home and the patient’s sleeping quarters being moved onto the ground floor: “Dad will sleep downstairs now”; the not wanting to ask the dying person all the questions you want to ask them so as not to acknowledge (to them or to yourself) that your time with them is almost up; the exhaustion and dread at the prospect of another day spent with the ill person and the self-loathing that accompanies it.
