Recovery by Dr Gavin Francis I won this book in a giveaway hosted by Rebecca who reviewed it here – thank you! Published by Profile Books for the Wellcome Trust, this short non fiction book is all about how we recover from illness, and the road back to good health. Francis is a GP, and Read More
Tag: Convalescence
Revisiting a children’s classic from 1958
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr In the Puffin edition (above), this book was my favourite contemporary children’s novel as I was growing up. I read it in the late 1960s, not once, not twice, but countless times. The story of a bed-bound girl whose drawings came to life in her dreams both entranced and scared Read More
