Milkshakes and Morphine - 9781784706692

Vintage Publishing

Milkshakes and MorphineA Memoir of Love and Life\nAuthor(s): Genevieve Fox\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Vintage\nISBN-13: 9781784706692, 978-1784706692\nSynopsis\nHonest, 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.\n\nWhen Genevieve Fox finds a lump in her throat, she turns up for the hospital diagnosis in a party frock. I cant have cancer, she thinks. Ive done my hair. But there is another reason she cant countenance cancer. She was orphaned by it at the age of nine.\n\nFoxs 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 lifes precariousness and turns iY