My Life After Cancer

When Martin Collins wakes to a rare Welsh morning full of sunshine, Ana wrapped around him like a human hot-water bottle and their son downstairs, life feels almost suspiciously good. After everything cancer put him through, he is not entirely convinced the universe hasn't mixed up his paperwork. My Life After Cancer is the funny, tender sequel to Cancer Through My Eyes - the story of what happens after the last hospital appointment, when people start saying "you're fine now, aren't you?" and you are still Googling every twinge. Martin is busy trying to live again: planning a long-awaited trip to the Philippines to finally hug the daughter he has not seen for over twenty years, surviving cancelled flights and seat-gripping turbulence over China, and hosting barbecues in the Vale of Glamorgan where the neighbours turn up faster than you can say "free beer". Through it all, one thing has not changed: Ana. Part nurse, part bodyguard, part gossip-in-chief, she still checks his lymph nodes, bosses him into the warm, and steals the remote for Coronation Street the second he lets his guard down. Around them swirl their son, their friends, and a small army of well-meaning locals who could run the world on coffee, chatter and pure nosiness. Honest, hopeful and often laugh-out-loud, My Life After Cancer is a love story, a family story and a survivor's story - about second chances, long-distance daughters, storm-tossed planes and learning to trust that it really is "game on" again.

Pagina's: 97, Paperback, Independently published