{"product_id":"milkshakes-and-morphine-a-memoir-of-love-and-life-9781784706692","title":"Milkshakes and Morphine: A Memoir of Love and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonest, heartrending and full of humour, this is an extraordinary memoir about an unconventional childhood and the absurdities of the cancer experience. It is also, most importantly, a celebration of life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Genevieve Fox finds a lump in her throat, she turns up for the hospital diagnosis in a party frock. \u003ci\u003eI can’t have cancer\u003c\/i\u003e, she thinks. \u003ci\u003eI’ve done my hair\u003c\/i\u003e. But there is another reason she can’t countenance cancer. She was orphaned by it at the age of nine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFox’s story weaves together past and present as she recalls her rackety, unconventional childhood, while also facing the spectre of being lost to her young boys. Yet she confronts her treatment with the same sassy survival instinct that characterised her childhood misadventures. She takes life’s precariousness and turns it on its head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Life-enhancing… Original and wonderful’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Exquisite and tender’\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SARAH PERRY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGenerous, engaging and laugh-out-loud funny\u003c\/b\u003e, Fox's memoir is a reminder that the willingness to share experience, good, bad, and sometimes bloody terrifying, is one of the best parts of what makes us human -- Julie Myerson\u003cbr\u003ePart journal, part pitch-black comedy, this \u003cb\u003eextraordinary account of childhood abandonment and life-threatening illness\u003c\/b\u003e is also a painfully intelligent meditation on vulnerability * Rachel Cusk *\u003cbr\u003eAn unexpectedly optimistic and at times funny story of hope, warmth, and the vitality of love. -- Helena Lee * Harper's Bazaar *\u003cbr\u003eFox is a brilliant storyteller and a beautiful writer. -- Anna van Praaghe * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eDelightful and moving… Fox’s writing brims with joie de vivre. -- Alice O'Keefe * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eCandid and optimistic. -- Fanny Blake * Woman \u0026amp; Home *\u003cbr\u003eA cordial, confiding narrator. -- Sarah Crown * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkably readable wit and flair. -- Helen Brown * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAn original and wonderful book. -- Allison Pearson * The Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA witty, life-affirming book. -- Valerie Grove * The Oldie *\u003cbr\u003eThis spirited memoir of her journey into remission weaves together stories of her unconventional, orphan childhood with poignant reflections on motherhood, art, and literature. -- Lorna Bradbury * World of Cruising *\u003cbr\u003eGenevieve Fox writes about cancer without cliché. Hers is a feat of endurance, not a journey. -- Harriet Baker * The Times Literary Supplement *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020438798679,"sku":"9781784706692","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781784706692.jpg?v=1750783430","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/milkshakes-and-morphine-a-memoir-of-love-and-life-9781784706692","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}