Before I Die

By Jenny Downham

Tessa is dying of cancer and has only a short time to live. Through humor and pain, Tessa takes listeners through her list of things she must do before she dies – sex, drugs, breaking the law – but the list starts to change as Tessa finds that there are more important things she wants to experience. Parry captures every range of emotion that Tessa experiences.

Notes

Narrated by Charlotte Parry, produced by Listening Library, 2007

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