Holding Tight, Letting Go: My Life, Death and All the Madness in Between - Couverture rigide

Hughes, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788705084 ISBN 13 : 9781788705080

Editeur : BLINK Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

'Too often we minimise the reality of terminal cancer, concentrating instead on survival records and talking only in positive pink ribbon terms. But what of those who live daily with the shadow of the disease? This is a book about how that feels. It is about how to die as much as about to how to live; yet it is also life-affirming, funny and shot through with hope.'Life is full of small details that we tuck away somewhere to revisit when we need them most: the calming sound of the sea, that childlike joy when you feel the sun hit your face on an early February morning. These small details knitted together, make up our perfect, ordinary lives. Few understood the importance of these more than Sarah Hughes, who lived with terminal metastatic cancer for over three years and who died in April 2021. This book is a celebration of everything that can make up a life, and how to hold it all close: how to cherish the perspective-changing, exhale-bringing perspective of a trashy novel; how to find the upside of chemo (finally being able to fit into flippy french tea dresses); how to explore the intimate topography of a body that's yours and yours alone. For fans of Matt Haig and Maggie O'Farrell, this is a tender word-of-mouth bestseller: the sort of book you'll press into the hands of your friends, family and a stranger in a bookshop.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Hughes was a London-based journalist who regularly contributed to a variety of publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the Observer and Metro. She specialised in entertainment writing with a particular emphasis on television and was responsible for the Guardian's hugely successful Game of Thrones blog. She also had considerable experience in lifestyle journalism, writing regularly for the Guardian's women's pages and the Observer news desk.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BLINK Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788705084
• ISBN 13: 9781788705080
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible