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The Heavens Are All Blue Dr Finbar Lennon

The Heavens Are All Blue By Dr Finbar Lennon

The Heavens Are All Blue by Dr Finbar Lennon


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The stunning heart-warming memoir about two doctors, a husband and wife, coming to terms with a devastating diagnosis.

The Heavens Are All Blue Summary

The Heavens Are All Blue: A memoir of two doctors, a marriage and a life of love before loss by Dr Finbar Lennon

When Dr Kate McGarry was diagnosed with an advanced cancer of unknown origin she resolved to write a book to chart her experience: as a woman coming to terms with such devastating news and what this meant to her as a wife and a mother but also, crucially, how she experienced cancer and its treatment as a doctor, who had become a patient.

As Kate adjusted to living with cancer and underwent treatment, she enlisted the help of her husband, fellow doctor, Finbar to help her write the book but then she sadly passed away on the 5 January 2018. With no writing experience, and wrestling with his own heartache, Finbar set about finishing their story. The result is a touchingly beautiful memoir about love, grief and togetherness.

'A loving memoir of time spent both together and apart ... [Kate's] personal legacy, as a mother, a wife and the life and soul of the party, is recorded beautifully in this moving memoir' Sunday Business Post

The Heavens Are All Blue Reviews

Heartbreaking but inspirational, The Heavens Are All Blue is an absorbing account of lives lived to the full ... tenderly told * Irish Examiner *
Romance, death, medicine, nostalgia, love, pain - it's all here in one utterly beguiling package. The very stuff, you could say, of life * Irish Independent *
A heart-warming memoir * Irish Country Magazine *
A loving memoir of time spent both together and apart, with all the intricacies and complications that come with mixing medical expertise and personal illness ... their love story is told with great care and occasional humour ... [a] moving memoir * Sunday Business Post *

About Dr Finbar Lennon

Dr Finbar Lennon (Author)
Dr Finbar Lennon is a medical graduate of UCD. He trained in Dublin, London and Edmonton. He was appointed a consultant general surgeon in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in 1982. Since his retirement in 2012 he teaches undergraduate medical students in the Mater Hospital in Dublin. He was recently appointed an Associate Professor in Clinical Surgery in UCD.

Dr Kathleen McGarry (Author)
Dr Kate McGarry was an honours medical graduate of UCD after winning an entrance scholarship to UCD, going on to win the Bellingham Gold Medal in clinical medicine in St. Vincent's Hospital, where she did her early postgraduate training. Her later training took place in the Hammersmith and Great Ormond Street hospitals in London, and the clinical pharmacology department in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She was appointed a Clinical Fellow in University Hospital, Edmonton in Canada before returning to Ireland in 1983 to work as a consultant physician in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan where she was instrumental in developing Cardiology services. Kate was a Fellow on the Royal College of Physicians for twenty-five years and she was also President of the Irish Heart Foundation. In October 2019, The Royal College of Physicians in Ireland honoured Kate with a prestigious new award, the Dr Kate McGarry Prize, which will be awarded annually to doctors in training.

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GOR012012437
9781529362459
1529362458
The Heavens Are All Blue: A memoir of two doctors, a marriage and a life of love before loss by Dr Finbar Lennon
Used - Like New
Paperback
Hachette Books Ireland
2021-01-07
384
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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