Eating Pomegranates

A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters and Genes

Sarah Gabriel

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English

Vintage
15 September 2010

Biography: general; Memoirs; Sociology: family & relationships; Women's health; Coping with illness; Intergenerational relationships

An astonishing first book and an intensely powerful and moving memoir about mothers, daughters and breast cancer.

After a troubled upbringing that saw the early death of her mother from cancer, Sarah Gabriel had created a happy home life with her partner and two beautiful daughters. Then, at 44, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and learned that while you can turn your back on your past, you can't escape your genetic legacy. The problem was MI8T, a rare and deadly genetic mutation that was responsible for the death of her mother and countless female ancestors.

In Gabriel's struggle for survival, she takes us on a white-knuckle ride through contemporary genetics, the rigours of her treatment for cancer, and the impact of the disease on her family's dynamics. It is a fight not just for physical survival, but for identity, for sanity, for hope.

Laced with black humour, written with a mixture of passion and clinical accuracy, Eating Pomegranates is an intensely powerful and moving memoir about mothers, daughters and breast cancer that is as beautiful as it is brutal.

By: Sarah Gabriel
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 225g
ISBN: 9780099523963
ISBN 10: 0099523965
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 September 2010
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Gabriel has worked as a travel journalist for the national press. Married with two daughters, she lives in Oxford.

Reviews for Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters and Genes

Remarkable, uncompromising and full of intelligence and insight...she has done a great service in probing social attitudes and in describing the intricate, often unspoken negotiations between the sick and the well -- Hilary Mantell A beautiful, heartrending book Observer It is a very brave book... Gabriel is an astute writer with a keen eye for the telling detail -- Kate Chisholm Daily Mail To say that Eating Pomegranates is beautifully written is to understate: it has a psalmic quality, rising to a Shakespearean English, the testament of a broken fragment, slivered and disbranched from her material sap -- Stevie Davies Independent 4*, It's very intimate, and very well told. -- William Leith Scotland on Sunday