There aren’t many likeable characters in Memento Mori . I counted three. But death comes for the likeable, the despicable and everyone in between, and the way aging adults cope with (or try to deny) that grim reality drives the plot of this book. Some try to shore up treasure in this life, some cling to relationships, some maintain a scientist’s neutrality, while others let their pain bring them closer to their God.  In the introduction to my Virago edition, A.L. Kennedy writ