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- ISBN 9781529941029
- Weight: 509g
- Dimensions: 160 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Ebury Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'A deep, personal, clever and witty book' Michael Rosen | 'Funny, moving, wise and then very funny again' John O'Farrell | 'clear-eyed, humane and engaging' Observer | 'inspiring' Guardian
I feel like there’s a leopard in my house, locked in a room. I’ve contacted the leopard authorities and they assure me they are used to dealing with leopards like this, and they have a plan for removing the leopard. It will take a while, though, and once in a while I can hear it growl.
And that’s all very reassuring. Even so, several times a day I think to myself: “Hang on, there’s a leopard in my house.”
One morning, while shaving, the comedian Mark Steel noticed that one side of his neck seemed larger than the other. After a whistlestop tour of assorted medical professionals, a consultant delivered the ominous words that would define the next months of his life: ‘I’m afraid it’s not good news, Mr Steel’.
And so began a journey into the heart of the NHS, as he embarked on the long and uncertain road to cancer recovery via a range of mildly torturous and entirely miraculous treatments. What, if anything, might he learn about himself – and our capacity for coping with life when times get tough – as he becomes part of a club that one in two British people will ultimately join?
A frank and funny diary of one man’s rather trying year, this is an unforgettable and uplifting story of getting ill, getting on with it, and getting better.
