You Don't Have to be Your Mother by Gayle Feldman - 1994

Paperback. Very Good.

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1994-11-03. Paperback. Very Good. 2.0051 cent in x 21.4721 cent in x 13.4010 cent in. Fast Despatch by First Class Royal Mail

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Very Good.

London England: Hamish Hamilton Limited, 1994. While hundreds of thousands of women a year discover that they have breast cancer and millions more are living with the aftermath and uncertainty of the disease, the circumstances of Gayle Feldman's diagnosis were almost uniquely poignant. When still a teenager, she had seen her own mother die tragically young of cancer. The experience devasted her family and coloured and shaped her entire life. She was forty years old and eight months pregnant when she discovered a lump in her left breast. There followed an artificially induced fifty-hour labour and delivery of a healthy son, Benjamin; two biopsies, and a mastectomy - all within two and a half weeks. You Don't Have To Be Your Mother movingly recounts Gayle's experience and remembers that of her mother, but it is also about family and friendship, taking in the generation of her grandmother - who also died young of cancer - and the steadfast support of a loving husband, father and sisters. It… Read More