In the March of 2004, the writer Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable leukaemia that eventually killed her in December of the same year. Now, in a painfully honest and soul searching memoir, her son – David Reiff – has written about the final months of his mother’s life. He joins Jenni to explain why, despite having said that he would never write about his mother’s death, he has published "Swimming in a Sea of Death" in which he talks about the guilt he feels at having colluded in her belief that she could beat the illness.
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