New Release: The Cancer Finishing School

New from Viking Penguin: The Cancer Finishing School is a darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offering lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.

‘My first stray thought: cancer is a gift. I’m lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.’

Accidentally diagnosed after a scan of his dicky knee, he was thrown into a world that he knew only too well from the other side: a world that soon shrank to hospital visits, sleepless and hyped-up nights on dexamethasone and life-saving chemotherapy. What lessons might cancer teach him before it finishes him off? he asks, obliquely.