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

Hutton, Deborah

ISBN 10: 1904977391 / ISBN 13: 9781904977391

Published by Short Books Ltd, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Can I Do to Help?: 75 Practical Ideas for Family and Friends from Cancer's Frontline
• Publisher: Short Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904977391
• ISBN 13: 9781904977391
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 220 grams

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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 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.