Both Sides Now: Laughter, grief and everything in between with Johnnie Walker
By (Author) Tiggy Walker
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
25th November 2025
11th September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Coping with / advice about personal, social and health topics
Home nursing and caring / Advice for caregivers
Radio / podcasts
Memoirs
Hardback
320
Width 159mm, Height 240mm, Spine 23mm
270g
The story of a national treasure we won't soon forget by the woman who knew him best.
I mention youve been smoking. He mustnt! she says, alarmed. Theres so much oxygen in your house hed explode. There is a funny side to this a cartoonish end: Johnnie Walker DJ Explodes!
Just try not to take the house with you.
In Johnnie Walker Both Sides Now, his devoted wife Tiggy shares the final chapter of their life together: the slow, painful goodbye to the man she adored. She reflects on the soaring highs of Johnnies legendary Radio 2 career, as they navigate the heartbreak, frustration, and strange intimacy of anticipatory grief.
This is an honest, deeply personal portrait of love and loss a raw, life-affirming tribute to a remarkable life well-lived. With wit and unflinching clarity, Tiggy lays bare the emotional toll of caring for someone at the end of life, and the impossible task of letting go while still holding on.
Not just for those who loved Johnnie Walker this is for anyone whos known the tangled, messy grace of caring, grieving and loving, all the way to the final breath.
Tiggy Walker is a writer, producer, director, podcaster and columnist. She is also a patron of Carers UK and the former agent of her beloved husband Johnnie Walker. Tiggy married Johnnie in 2002 and cared for him during his illness.