It has been easier to cope with my cancer during lockdown - and books have been a lifeline

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While being treated for a brain tumour, Susie Steiner has read memoirs and medical histories - but it was a novel that best captured the gruelling reality of illness

I wrote my latest novel, Remain Silent, with a 9cm tumour pushing my brain over its midline. But I didn’t know about it. I was deep into researching Operation Pheasant, a team tackling modern day slavery in the Wisbech area. I was busy arranging a trip to Lithuania, where I travelled the neighbourhoods of Klaipeda to try and understand what makes a person leave. I was relishing the company of DI Manon Bradshaw, the detective protagonist of my crime novels.

 

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TheresaSchroe14 why past tense?

This is the best article I have read in ages. I empathise with so much of Ms. Steiner’s experience though hers has been harder than mine, tough as it continues to be. If it not for books I don’t know where I’d have been over the last year let alone during lockdown. Best wishes.

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Books! Who'da thunk it? Never read one until I got cancer and had a lockdown. Oh, and don't forget, books are monolithically a good thing, regardless, because hey, it's a book! You're clever now.

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Absolutely. Lockdown has given me plenty of time to catch up with classics, and sample new authors, at a time when my time is at a premium.

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