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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781460758830
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 304
Description:
'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down'
Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she'd set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. At the age of sixteen, Kirsty's cancer returned. Faced with a devastating prognosis, she threw herself into as much as she could - friends, school, drama, sport, even a life-writing course with Patti Miller. As she said, 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down.'
Against the odds, Kirsty survived. She never achieved gold at the Olympics, but she learned a lot about people, attitudes and resilience.
This is a book about growing up different when you want to be the same; sparking hostility where there should be support; and how love can be tested to its utmost. It's wise and unflinching and hopeful, and you won't feel the same after reading it.
PRAISE
'Told by a writer who's a real natural' Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald
'[An] incredible book ... I haven't been able to stop thinking about Kirsty's journey' Chyka Keebaugh
'Everett is a born writer, her compelling story shot through with the extraordinary sensitivities of childhood' - B+P magazine
'Honey Blood is one of the most exuberant, life-affirming memoirs I have ever read. The fact that it is about the uncompromising reality of c
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781460758830
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 304
Description:
'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down'
Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she'd set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. At the age of sixteen, Kirsty's cancer returned. Faced with a devastating prognosis, she threw herself into as much as she could - friends, school, drama, sport, even a life-writing course with Patti Miller. As she said, 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down.'
Against the odds, Kirsty survived. She never achieved gold at the Olympics, but she learned a lot about people, attitudes and resilience.
This is a book about growing up different when you want to be the same; sparking hostility where there should be support; and how love can be tested to its utmost. It's wise and unflinching and hopeful, and you won't feel the same after reading it.
PRAISE
'Told by a writer who's a real natural' Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald
'[An] incredible book ... I haven't been able to stop thinking about Kirsty's journey' Chyka Keebaugh
'Everett is a born writer, her compelling story shot through with the extraordinary sensitivities of childhood' - B+P magazine
'Honey Blood is one of the most exuberant, life-affirming memoirs I have ever read. The fact that it is about the uncompromising reality of c