Life expectancy begins to fall

Is your retirement plan dying in the climate wars? Are you getting on with things in the meantime? In Life expectancy begins to fall, Tom Sastry asks how we normalise an apocalypse, taking us on a tour of bad coping strategies, unwelcome epiphanies and moments where we appreciate what we still have. Part-elegy, part-satire, this collection skewers the cliches of online activism, spirituality and positive thinking which so often fail to empower us while always affirming the value of emotional honesty and connection between human beings. Quietly and persuasively, this book develops a subtle meditation on hope: a hope that is generous enough not to demand positivity from others and realistic enough to allow us our own moments of pessimism, despair, even cynicism.