Book description
Deborah Hutton's discovery that the niggling cough which had been
troubling her for a couple of months was actually an aggressive lung
cancer marked the beginning of a brand-new learning curve Â- a
personal odyssey that taught her to let go of her super-competent
I-can-handle-it-myself persona and gratefully accept the huge amount
of help beamed at her by her close-knit family and  world classâ
network of friends and neighbours. From her own experience and out of
her conversations with fellow members of the  Cancer Clubâ comes
this anthology of supremely practical examples of ways in which
friends and family, often themselves reeling from the shock of the
diagnosis and feeling just as helpless and at a loss to know what to
do, can make a real, substantial difference. Â What can I do to help?â
you ask. Well, stand by, because the answer is  Plentyâ .
Deborah Huttton was a journalist for 25 years, writing for most of
the country's major glossy magazines and newspapers - from Vogue, Elle,
Marie Claire and the Mail on Sunday's You magazine to The Observer, The
Guardian and The Sunday Times. This was her sixth book. She lived in
north London with her husband, photographer and director, Charlie
Stebbings, and their four children, Archie, Romilly, Clemmie and
Freddie.
