"Choice" "[A] short, haunting and rather beautiful book.". ---Rowan Williams, New Statesman "A moving and profound reflection on life.". ---P. D. Smith, The Guardian "Magee is refreshingly comfortable acknowledging the uncanniness of human experience, including the aesthetic as well as the ethical.. His case for acknowledging the extent of what we do not know is a useful corrective to 'jolly hockey sticks' humanism as well as religious dogma.".