LATE FRAGMENTS EB
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LATE FRAGMENTS EB

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eBook - ePub

LATE FRAGMENTS EB

About this book

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What are the things we live for? What matters most in life when your time is short? This brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it means to die before your time; how to take charge of your life and fill it with wonder, hope and joy even in the face of tragedy.

Ambitious and talented, Kate Gross worked at Number 10 Downing Street for two British Prime Ministers whilst only in her twenties. At thirty, she was CEO of a charity working with fragile democracies in Africa. She had married 'the best looking man I've ever kissed' – and given birth to twin boys in 2008. The future was bright.

But aged 34, Kate was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer. After a two-year battle with the disease, Kate died peacefully at home on Christmas morning, just ten minutes before her sons awoke to open their stockings.

She began to write as a gift to herself, a reminder that she could create even as her body began to self-destruct. Written for those she loves, her book is not a conventional cancer memoir; nor is it filled with medical jargon or misery. Instead, it is Kate's powerful attempt to make sense of the woman who emerged in the strange, lucid final chunk of her life. Her book aspires to give hope and purpose to the lives of her readers even as her own life drew to its close.

Kate should have been granted decades to say all that she says in these pages. Denied the chance to bore her children and grandchildren with stories when she became fat and old, she offers us all her thoughts on how to live; on the wonder to be found in the everyday; the importance of friendship and love; what it means to die before your time and how to fill your life with hope and joy even in the face of tragedy.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Plastic Bag and the Red Coat
  7. 2 The Terracotta Army
  8. 3 The Landscape of Your Mind
  9. 4 A Pile of Golden Treasure
  10. 5 The Original Four-Square
  11. 6 The Woman in the Arena
  12. 7 Earthquakes, and the Light They Let In
  13. 8 Cantus Firmus
  14. 9 What’s Love Got to Do With It?
  15. 10 Sing, Everyone
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Bibliography
  18. Postscript
  19. Credits
  20. About the Author
  21. About the Publisher

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