What Can I Do to Help?: 75 Practical Ideas for Family and Friends from Cancer's Frontline - Softcover

Hutton, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904977391 ISBN 13: 9781904977391

Publisher: Short Books Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Last November, Deborah Hutton discovered that the irritating cough she had had for two months was no trivial chest infection but in fact an aggressive carcino-adenoma that had already spread well beyond her lungs...What struck her, as she struggled to cope in the weeks following, was how difficult it was for everyone around her to deal with her news. They all wanted to help, to say the right thing. Yet somehow, all too often, their best attempts at kindness proved more debilitating than comforting. The grim reality of cancer is that life, with all its myriad demands, continues: the dog still needs walking, the daily meals need preparing and dishing up. "What can I do to help?" you ask. Well, stand by, because the answer is: plenty.

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Huttton was a journalist for 25 years, writing for most of the country's major glossy magazines and newspapers - from Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and the Mail on Sunday's You magazine to The Observer, The Guardian and The Sunday Times. This was her sixth book. She lived in north London with her husband, photographer and director, Charlie Stebbings, and their four children, Archie, Romilly, Clemmie and Freddie.

Review

"The great strength of this anthology is that it gives clear and supremely practical guidance to the family and friends of PWC (People With Cancer), who long to do something to help but don't know how to go about it." The Spectator "A brilliant and unprecedented insight for the four million of us who live with, or around, one of Britain's 270,000 new cancer patients each year." Jon Snow

Edition details

• Publisher: Short Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904977391
• ISBN 13: 9781904977391
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256