‘A deep, personal, clever and witty book’ <\/b>Michael Rosen <\/i>|<\/b> ‘Funny, moving, wise and then very funny again<\/b>‘ John O’Farrell<\/i> | ‘<\/b>clear-eyed, humane and engaging<\/b>‘ <\/b>Observer<\/i> | ‘<\/b>inspiring’ <\/b>Guardian<\/i><\/p>\n
I feel like there’s a leopard in my house, locked in a room. I’ve contacted the leopard authorities and they assure me they are used to dealing with leopards like this, and they have a plan for removing the leopard. It will take a while, though, and once in a while I can hear it growl.<\/i><\/p>\n
And that’s all very reassuring. Even so, several times a day I think to myself: “Hang on, there’s a leopard in my house.”<\/i><\/p>\n
One morning, while shaving, the comedian Mark Steel noticed that one side of his neck seemed larger than the other. After a whistlestop tour of assorted medical professionals, a consultant delivered the ominous words that would define the next months of his life: ‘I’m afraid it’s not good news, Mr Steel’.<\/p>\n
And so began a journey into the heart of the NHS, as he embarked on the long and uncertain road to cancer recovery via a range of mildly torturous and entirely miraculous treatments. What, if anything, might he learn about himself – and our capacity for coping with life when times get tough – as he becomes part of a club that one in two British people will ultimately join?<\/p>\n
A frank and funny diary of one man’s rather trying year, this is an unforgettable and uplifting story of getting ill, getting on with it, and getting better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One morning, while shaving, the comedian Mark Steel noticed that one side of his neck seemed larger than the other. After a whistlestop tour of assorted medical professionals, a consultant delivered the ominous words that would define the next months of his life: ‘I’m afraid it’s not good news, Mr Steel’. And so began a journey into the heart of the NHS, as he embarked on the long and uncertain road to cancer recovery via a range of mildly torturous and entirely miraculous treatments. What, if anything, might he learn about himself – and our capacity for coping with life when times get tough – as he becomes part of a club that one in two British people will ultimately join? A frank and funny diary of one man’s rather trying year, this is an unforgettable and uplifting story of getting ill, getting on with it, and getting better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[435],"product_tag":[517,259,1931],"class_list":{"0":"post-106615","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-biography-hb","6":"product_tag-biography-arts-entertainment","7":"product_tag-memoirs","8":"product_tag-popular-medicine-health","9":"pa_book_author-steel-mark","10":"pa_cover-hardback","11":"pa_dewey-362-1969940092-edition23","12":"pa_imprint-ebury-press","13":"pa_language-english","14":"pa_pages-8634","15":"pa_publisher-ebury-press","16":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"taxable","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n