An Evening with Catherine Simpson
Catherine Simpson, the acclaimed writer of When I Had a Little Sister, will be joining us to discuss her new memoir, One Body.
About An Evening with Catherine Simpson
We are honoured to be hosting an evening with acclaimed writer Catherine Simpson to launch her new memoir One Body.
Catherine will be in discussion with Mary Paulson-Ellis from 6pm in our gorgeous 2nd-floor cafe. There will be an opportuntiy to have books signed afterwards.
About One Body:
By the time she reached her fifties, Catherine Simpson and her body had gone through a lot together - from period pain, an abortion and early menopause to shaming and harassment. But there had been success, joy, love and laughter too: far more freedoms than her mother had, a fulfilling family life and career, and the promise of more gains for her daughters.
So when a cancer diagnosis upends her life, Catherine is forced to reflect on her body, then and now. From having been brought up on a farm where vets were more common than doctors, and where illness was 'a nuisance', she finds herself faced with the nuisance of a lifetime.
One Body is the candid, searing and often darkly funny story of how Catherine navigates her treatment and takes stock of the emotions and reflections it provokes, until her cancer is in remission. And how she comes to appreciate the skin she is in - to be grateful for her body and all that it does and is.
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