'Ruth’s hopes for survival were not to be, but this is not an unhappy or morbid book.' Photo: Book cover of Between Living and Dying: Reflections from the edge of experience, by Ruth Scott
Between Living and Dying: Reflections from the edge of experience, by Ruth Scott
Author: Ruth Scott. Review by Valerie Clarke.
by Valerie Clarke
26th November 2021
I bought this book because I wanted to compare the author’s experience of lymphoma with my own. Ruth Scott was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Non Hodgkin’s in 2017, and I was told in 2004 that I have an indolent, slow-growing one. We both had a stem cell transplant: she received her own cells back while I got mine from two umbilical cords.
