Late Fragments

*THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER*
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.

About the author

Kate Gross was 36 years old when she died from colon cancer on Christmas day at her home in Cambridge. Before her cancer, Kate read English at Oxford University. She joined the civil service and worked in Number 10 Downing Street for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. On leaving, she set up the Africa Governance Initiative, a charity which works to rebuild structures of Government in post-conflict Africa. She was awarded an OBE in 2014 for her work. She blogged about her cancer at kateelizabethgross.wordpress.com and wrote there in more medical detail than she does in her book which is almost entirely free of any medical jargon or writing on the nature of cancer. It is a book instead about life. She is survived by her husband Billy and their five year old sons Isaac and Oscar.

Summary

*THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER* 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Gross, Gross Kate
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780008103477
• ISBN: 978-0-00-810347-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Autobiographien (div.), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs