What are the top regrets of the dying? That’s what Kerry Egan, a hospice chaplain, learned as she listened to her patients on their deathbeds, witnessing what she calls the ‘spiritual work of dying’ – the work of finding or making meaning of one’s life, the experiences it contained and the people who have touched it. In this book she recalls the stories she heard – stories of hope and regret, shame and pride, mystery and revelation, and secrets held too long.