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Suddenly, While Living

Suddenly, While Living

Rosie Driffill

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"Words newspapers use in articles about medically unexplained illnesses that you rarely see in articles about medically explained illnesses: Claim, Insist, Convince, Purported, Evidence, Disputed, Baffled, Phantom, Believe, Imaginary, Controversial, Fantasy, Freaky, Unusual, Bizarre, Real, Not real."

Suddenly, while living, Rosie's body stopped. Too ill to function as she did before, and with a trail of baffled doctors in her wake, Rosie works to find new meaning in this rollercoaster we call life, taking us along for the ride.

Breaking down the walls between memoir, self-help, comedy, and poetry, Suddenly, While Living is Rosie’s telling of her first year with her mystery illness as she grapples with love, loss, religion and, of course, her health. Rosie’s rare gift for writing informally while maintaining a great depth of meaning will have you laughing and crying in equal measure, leaving you with a whole new outlook on life.

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Imprint: Valley Press

Published: January 2021

ISBN: 9781912436538

Catalogue no: VP0174

Page count: 224

Trim size: 198 x 129 mm

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About the author

Rosie Driffill is a writer and psychotherapist from North Yorkshire. She has written for the Guardian, Wanderlust, the Dalesman and Therapy Today. Her memoir Suddenly, While Living, a meditation on living with a mysterious, debilitating illness, was published by Valley Press in 2021; her debut poetry pamphlet Blue-Green Algae was released in 2022. She lives in Calderdale, and splits her free time between the valleys and the moors.