The Last Year
What if Nothing Is Lost?
A story of love, loss, and what remains when everything changes.
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A year before losing his wife, Amanda, Dr. Jag Johal completed a book about suffering and finding ease.
The very next day, everything changed.
The Last Year is an intimate memoir of love, loss, and the extraordinary lessons found in life's most difficult moments.
At its heart is Amanda — a woman whose remarkable way of living would teach her husband more than he ever imagined.
Available November 14, 2026.
About The Last Year
What happens when everything you thought you understood about life is put to the ultimate test?
Dr. Jag Johal had just finished writing Ease, a book about the biology of threat and suffering. The very next day, his wife Amanda was diagnosed with cancer.
What followed was a year neither of them could have imagined.
The Last Year is an intimate, deeply personal memoir about love, uncertainty, loss, and the extraordinary woman at the centre of it all.
It is also a story about the person who remains — and how witnessing someone else's final year can forever change the way we understand our own.
What if nothing is lost?
The Woman Behind the Story
Amanda had a way of meeting life that was extraordinary in its simplicity.
Even during the most difficult year of her life, she remained remarkably present, loving, and unmistakably herself.
She would often say, "There, sweetie. Everything will be okay."
The Last Year is more than a story of losing someone. It's about what Amanda taught me about living, loving, and the possibility that nothing is ever truly lost.