For anyone living with cancer, the struggle can feel isolating and endless. As a young mum fighting Bowel Cancer, Nicola Bourne found that she had so many questions that most 31 years olds don’t have to ask, like how to fit chemotherapy around family life, how to explain cancer to her children and how to stay social during such a difficult time.
When looking for answers, Nicola could only find books that were either memoirs, or clinical journals written from a medical perspective. Speaking to other women fighting cancer, she found that this was a problem that many of them had faced, and being a writer she realised she was in a position to provide the advice she had desperately wanted. She set about collecting as many resources as she could: any advice, story, tip or article from other women in the same situation. In 2015, having beaten cancer, Nicola compiled everything she had learned into her book “The Fabulous Woman’s Guide Through Cancer”.