A terminally ill woman makes a final trip to Egypt in an exquisitely wrought portrait of end-of-life reckoning Virginia Woolf said of Middlemarch that it is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. In the shallow and infantilising age through which we are living, Colin Thubron ...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/26/passage-by-colin-thubron-review-mortality-and-memory-in-a-gem-of-a-novel)