Medical Fiction

• Publisher: Luath Press
• ISBN: n/a yet
• Publication Date: Spring 2008
• Format: 210 x 135 mm
• Extent: n/a yet
• Price: n/a yet
• Rights available: World

Is fate a science? Or does one control the other?

A shocking, heart-breaking struggle with an inexorable opponent - powerful, moving and highly significant.

After his death from Motor Neurone Disease, Adam O’Neill’s wife Naomi discovers the diary he kept of his illness, from diagnosis to death. Through this she is able to trace the development of Adam’s fight against the disease, the issues from his past it forces him to face and the stigma and quandaries it presents. As he searches for allies in his desire for release from the disease which imprisons him, Naomi struggles with the guilt of her own secret.

Hazel McHaffie is a trained nurse and midwife who has carried out extensive research into medical ethics and has lectured around the world. She is widely published in the medical and academic spheres, and her move into fiction with her ‘living literature’ series is a culmination of her far-reaching medical knowledge and her creative writing talent.

Part of a new series of novels exploring medical ethics – the Living Literature Series is introduced with this incredible story of one man’s fight against a terminal illness.

Particularly topical with the debate in Parliament over the attempts to pass the Bill on assisted suicide – a highly controversial subject that will attract media attention across all sectors.