Artists and novelists often hide behind their paintings and book Raymond Hitchcock, both a successful artist and acclaimed novelist has used his considerable talents to share the experience of his own fight against cancer.

From the first moment of diagnosis to the last jubilant interview with his surgeon, Raymond Hitchcock is honest with a searing trut that almost hurts. He chronicles his scepticism, his emotional ups an downs. We learn of his treatment at the Bristol Cancer Help Clinic a faith healing. He emerges, at the end, a completely different person.

This is a story of fear overcome, of new faith and trust in people not just the cure of an illness but the healing of a whole life.

About the author

Raymond Hitchcock, who was born in India in 1922 and now live near Winchester, served in the Royal Engineers in the Second World War until he was wounded in Normandy in 1944. Returning to Cambridge he read Mechanical Sciences, but after ten years gave up the sciences for the arts.

Besides cartoons for Punch and six one-man exhibitions of paintings and sculpture, he has written several television plays, include in Play for Today and Screen Two productions. His first novel Percy was filmed and became a bestseller. There followed The Gilt-Edged Boy. Venus 13. Attack the Lusitania!, Sea Wrack, Archangel 006. The Tunnellers and Checkmate Budapest.