Radical Acts of Love: How We Find Hope at the End of Life

'Insightful, wise and life-affirming' Observer
'Turns death into life, despair into hope, sorrow into joy' Stephen Fry

In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse and counsellor, offers a sensitive and wise insight into our final moments by recounting twenty conversations she has had with people who were dying.

Author: Janie Brown
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 04/20/2021
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781786899033
ISBN10: 1786899035
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Self-Help | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Health & Fitness | Diseases & Conditions | Cancer

About the Author

Janie Brown was born in Epsom, England, and raised in Scotland from the age of four. She has a Masters in Psychology at St Andrews University, and a Masters in Nursing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has worked for more than thirty years as an oncology nurse and counsellor, and in 1995 founded the Callanish Society, a grassroots non-profit organisation for people living with, and dying from, cancer, based in Vancouver (callanish.org). She presents nationally and internationally, has published in professional journals and writes a widely read blog.

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