75 Practical Ideas for Family and Friends from Cancer's Frontline.
Deborah Hutton's discovery that the niggling cough which had been troubling her for a couple of months was actually an aggressive lung cancer that had already invaded her bones and lymphatic system marked the beginning of a brand-new learning curve - 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 close-knit family and 'world-class' network of friends and neighbours.
From her own experience and out of her conversations with fellow members of the Cancer Club - 'the only club I can think of which is both rigorously exclusive and which has no waiting list, ever' - comes this anthology of supremely practical examples of ways in which friends and family, often at a loss to know what to do, can make a real, substantial difference.
'What can I do to help?' she writes. Well, stand by, because the answer is 'Plenty'.
