Use coupon code “MARCH20” for a 20% discount on all items! Valid until 31-03-2025

Site Logo
Search Suggestions

      Royal Mail  express delivery to UK destinations

      Regular sales and promotions

      Stock updates every 20 minutes!

      Milkshakes and Morphine: A Memoir of Love and Life

      9 in stock

      Firm sale: non returnable item
      SKU 9781784706692 Categories ,
      Select Guide Rating
      Honest, heartrending and full of humour, this is an extraordinary memoir about an unconventional childhood and the absurdities of the cancer experience.

      Honest, heartrending and full of humour, this is an extraordinary memoir about an unconventional childhood and the ...

      £16.99

      Buy new:

      Delivery: UK delivery Only. Usually dispatched in 1-2 working days.

      Shipping costs: All shipping costs calculated in the cart or during the checkout process.

      Standard service (normally 2-3 working days): 48hr Tracked service.

      Premium service (next working day): 24hr Tracked service – signature service included.

      Royal mail: 24 & 48hr Tracked: Trackable items weighing up to 20kg are tracked to door and are inclusive of text and email with ‘Leave in Safe Place’ options, but are non-signature services. Examples of service expected: Standard 48hr service – if ordered before 3pm on Thursday then expected delivery would be on Saturday. If Premium 24hr service used, then expected delivery would be Friday.

      Signature Service: This service is only available for tracked items.

      Leave in Safe Place: This option is available at no additional charge for tracked services.

      Description

      Product ID:9781784706692
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Milkshakes and Morphine
      Subtitle:A Memoir of Love and Life
      Authors:Author: Genevieve Fox
      Page Count:384
      Subjects:Memoirs, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Women’s health, Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, Relationships and families: advice and issues, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Women's health, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Family & relationships
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      Honest, heartrending and full of humour, this is an extraordinary memoir about an unconventional childhood and the absurdities of the cancer experience.

      Honest, heartrending and full of humour, this is an extraordinary memoir about an unconventional childhood and the absurdities of the cancer experience. It is also, most importantly, a celebration of life.

      When Genevieve Fox finds a lump in her throat, she turns up for the hospital diagnosis in a party frock. I can’t have cancer, she thinks. I’ve done my hair. But there is another reason she can’t countenance cancer. She was orphaned by it at the age of nine.

      Fox’s story weaves together past and present as she recalls her rackety, unconventional childhood, while also facing the spectre of being lost to her young boys. Yet she confronts her treatment with the same sassy survival instinct that characterised her childhood misadventures. She takes life’s precariousness and turns it on its head.

      ‘Life-enhancing… Original and wonderful’
      Sunday Telegraph

      ‘Exquisite and tender’
      SARAH PERRY


      Imprint Name:Vintage
      Publisher Name:Vintage Publishing
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2019-01-24

      Additional information

      Weight270 g
      Dimensions150 × 135 × 24 mm