The In-Between

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Hospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.

We don't often talk about dying, even in the medical field, but death is a universal part of life. An ardent advocate for compassionate end-of-life care, Hadley Vlahos, shows us that the end of our lives can be rich, beautiful and transformative by sharing moving stories about how her patients' final days have changed her life.

Full of insights from real people, from the woman who never once questioned her faith until she was close to death, to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter, to the young patient who laments that she spent too much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her - each story raises vital questions about living, dying and the afterlife, inspiring us to live our lives to the fullest.

©2023 Hadley Vlahos (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

Here’s what you need to know about Vlahos’s memoir: It’s heartfelt without being woo-woo, and it’s not as sad as you’d expect it to be. Vlahos walks readers through her time caring for 11 patients (names, identifying details and medical information have been changed) and her mother-in-law, who died in 2018. Her tone is gentle, refreshingly forthright and befitting of a professional who tells us what to expect from an event that has launched a thousand euphemisms.

The New York Times

Extraordinary … helps dispel fear around death and dying – revealing it to be a natural part of our soul’s evolution

Laura Lynne Jackson, author of 'The Signs'

Tender and transformative . . . it makes dying feel like a peaceful, dynamic, and nourishing event

Christie Tate, author of 'Group'

Gentle encouragement for all those who live under life’s running clock and for those who love them

Kirkus Reviews

Vlahos’s compassionate, beautifully written book contains profound wisdom

Katy Butler, author of 'The Art of Dying Well'

The combined beauty, faith, and compassion found in each patient’s death is meaningful and sublime

Theresa Brown, author of 'The Shift'

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