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When Genevieve first feels a lump on her throat she ignores it. She has form with cancer – it took her mother when Genevieve was only nine – and she is simply not willing to go there. As the lump grows Genevieve has no choice but to engage. But from her first diagnosis – wearing in a favourite frock for a party that evening – to the succour she derives from friendships during difficult days to come, Genevieve confronts cancer with sass as well as a dogged optimism fuelled partly by her own young sons. Genevieve’s story weaves between now and her childhood, a rackety and fascinating yet precarious period for her and her orphaned sister.
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Honest, heartrending and full of humour, this is an extraordinary memoir about an unconventional childhood and the absurdities of the cancer experience. It is also, most importantly, a celebration of life.
When Genevieve Fox finds a lump in her throat, she turns up for the hospital diagnosis in a party frock. I can’t have cancer, she thinks. I’ve done my hair. But there is another reason she can’t countenance cancer. She was orphaned by it at the age of nine.
Fox’s story weaves together past and present as she recalls her rackety, unconventional childhood, while also facing the spectre of being lost to her young boys. Yet she confronts her treatment with the same sassy survival instinct that characterised her childhood misadventures. She takes life’s precariousness and turns it on its head.
‘Life-enhancing? Original and wonderful’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Exquisite and tender’
SARAH PERRY
| Weight | 0.266 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.3 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | ix, 371 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 362.196994320092 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
