Milkshakes and morphine : a memoir of love and loss /
by Fox, Genevieve.
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BookPublisher: London : Square Peg, 2018Description: vii, 374 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781910931714 (hbk.) :; 1910931713 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 FOXSubject(s): Fox, Genevieve | Fox, Genevieve -- Health | Fox, Genevieve -- Family | Throat -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography | Mother and child | Biography | BiographySummary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 920 FOX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002952375X |
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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