In late 2019 pop journalist Sylvia Patterson was convinced she was about to die. Told she had a life-threatening illness, she was reminded of the words of rock 'n' roll hero Liam Gallagher. 'Why me? Why not?' But what she didn't expect was an overnight rethink of her lifetime's values, two years of gruelling treatment and the arrival of a global pandemic.
As a woman in her mid-50s she learned many new things: how The Big Stuff of life changes you (and the things it doesn't), what friendship really means, what a traumatising treatment regime does to a human being, how much worse these things can be for a partner and how much she missed the supposedly little things in life: food, dancing, a glass of wine, a good night's sleep, a decent haircut, the joy of brushing your teeth.
- ISBN10 0349727457
- ISBN13 9780349727455
- Publish Date 25 May 2023
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Fleet
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English