Julia Darling's first book, Sudden Collapses in Public Places, grew from her experiences of being treated for breast cancer; "[it] helped me to step out of the difficult present and to use my imagination to be somewhere else." Her second collection looks at the world beyond the hospital, though still from the viewpoint of a cancer patient in the advanced stages of the illness. The themes are familiar, but here she writes with a wider perspective, a deeper understanding which reach out to the heart of the human condition and the greater mysteries of life, albeit in an understated way. This is a powerful and deeply affecting book, completely unsentimental yet charged with emotion - indeed, one of those rare books that have a profound and lasting effect.

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Julia Darling, novelist, playwright and poet, has lived and worked in the North East since 1980. She has written two novels, Crocodile Soup and The Taxi Driver's Daughter (both of which were nominated for major literary prizes), many of her short stories have been broadcast on Radio 4 and her plays have been staged throughout the North-east and broadcast on the radio. In March 2003, she became the second winner of the acclaimed Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award, the largest annual literary award in England.

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