Overcoming: The powerful, compelling, award-winning memoir

Synopsis

'If there's any message I want people to take from this book, it is hope that, even in the hardest of times, life is worth living, one precious moment at a time.' Vicky PhelanWhen Vicky Phelan delivered an emotionally charged statement from the steps of the Four Courts in April 2018 - having refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement in the settlement of her action against the HSE - she unearthed the medical and political scandal of our times. It would emerge that, like Vicky, 220 other women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer were not informed that a clinical audit -carried out by the national screen programme CervicalCheck - had revised their earlier, negative smear tests. Their cancers could possibly have been preventable. Since then, Vicky has become women's voice for justice on the issue, and her system-changing activism has made her a household name.In her memoir Overcoming, Vicky shares her remarkable personal story, from a life-threatening accident in early adulthood through to motherhood, a battle with depression, her devastating later discovery that her cancer had returned in shocking circumstances - and the ensuing detective-like scrutiny of events that led the charge for her history-making legal action.An inspiring story of rare resilience and power, Overcoming is an account of how one woman can move mountains - even when she is fighting for her own life - and of finding happiness and strength in the toughest of times.(P)2019 Hachette Books Ireland

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781529328158

Related ISBNs:

9781529318708

Publisher:

Hachette Books Ireland

Date of Addition:

09/01/22

Copyrighted By:

Vicky Phelan

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Narrated By:

Aoife McMahon

Categories:

Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.