Consumed - A Sister's Story - SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021 (Hardcover)

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021 * 'If her moving, engrossing, elegantly written memoir does not win prizes, there really is no justice in the literary world.' Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. When Arifa Akbar discovered that her sister had fallen seriously ill, she assumed there would be a brief spell in hospital and then she'd be home. This was not to be. It was not until the day before she died that the family discovered she was suffering from tuberculosis. Consumed is a story of sisterhood, grief, the redemptive power of art and the strange mythologies that surround tuberculosis. It takes us from Keats's deathbed and the tubercular women of opera to the resurgence of TB in modern Britain today. Arifa travels to Rome to haunt the places Keats and her sister had explored, to her grandparent's house in Pakistan, to her sister's bedside at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead and back to a London of the seventies when her family first arrived, poor, homeless and hungry. Consumed is an eloquent and moving excavation of a family's secrets and a sister's detective story to understand her sibling.

General

Imprint:	Sceptre
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Arifa Akbar
Dimensions:	220 x 142 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-5293-4752-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Textile arts > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5293-4752-1
Barcode:	9781529347524

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