Book description
After a troubled upbringing that saw the early death of her mother
from cancer, Sarah Gabriel had created a happy home life with her
partner and two beautiful daughters. Then, at 44, she was diagnosed
with breast cancer and learned that while you can turn your back on
your past, you can't escape your genetic legacy. The problem was MI8T,
a rare and deadly genetic mutation that was responsible for the death
of her mother and countless female ancestors.
In Gabriel's struggle for survival, she takes us on a white-knuckle
ride through contemporary genetics, the rigours of her treatment for
cancer, and the impact of the disease on her family's dynamics. It is
a fight not just for physical survival, but for identity, for sanity,
for hope.
Laced with black humour, written with a mixture of passion and
clinical accuracy, Eating Pomegranates is an intensely powerful
and moving memoir about mothers, daughters and breast cancer that is
as beautiful as it is brutal.
Sarah Gabriel has worked as a travel journalist for the national
press. Married with two daughters, she lives in Oxford.
