Description
Book SynopsisCross Everything is a heart-wrenching cancer memoir, a fascinating popular-science detective story, and a witty and at times darkly comical take on a disease that half of us will experience at some point in our lives.
When Henry Scowcroft''s fiancée Zarah was diagnosed with stage 4 bladder cancer in 2016, their world fell apart. An award-winning science writer for Cancer Research UK, Henry had spent 14 years at the coal-face of cancer research, but now the disease had infiltrated his personal life too. In Cross Everything--his first book--Henry uses this unique perspective to tell the story of Zarah''s illness, how he tried in vain to use everything he''d learnt in his professional career to try to save her, and in doing so, how he realized that even a career writing about cancer daily isn''t enough preparation for what comes next. Along the way, Cross Everything brings the reader up to speed with the latest understanding of cancer--a complex dise
Trade Review
A moving, compelling and vital book, that sheds much needed light on the very latest understanding of cancer. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee * author of The Emperor of All Maladies *
Sensitive and informed. Essential reading for anyone supporting a loved one through cancer. -- Deborah James (@bowelbabe), writer and broadcaster
A gripping, heartbreaking, accessible personal journey through love and cancer. -- New York Times bestselling author of The Breakthrough * Charles Graeber *
Cross Everything may be the most heartbreaking medical memoir you'll read. * The Daily Mail *
A moving and sensitive story that shines a light on our understanding of cancer * View Digital *
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Team Twat 2 Here comes cancer 3 Chemotherapy 4 Annabell’s story 5 What next? 6 Waves a hundred feet tall 7 Who was Tina anyway? 8 Some musings on cancer Epilogue
