Consumed

A Sister's Story

Consumed
Arifa Akbar
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Hardback
h222 x 138mm - 256pg
10 Jun 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529347524
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. When Arifa Akbar discovered that her sister had fallen seriously ill, she assumed there would be a brief spell in hospital and then she' d be home. This was not to be. It was not until the day before she died that the family discovered she was suffering from tuberculosis. Consumed is a story of sisterhood, grief, the redemptive power of art and the strange mythologies that surround tuberculosis. It takes us from Keats' s deathbed and the tubercular women of opera to the resurgence of TB in modern Britain today. Arifa travels to Rome to haunt the places Keats and her sister had explored, to her grandparent' s house in Pakistan, to her sister' s bedside at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead and back to a London of the seventies when her family first arrived, poor, homeless and hungry. Consumed is an eloquent and moving excavation of a family' s secrets and a sister' s detective story to understand her sibling.
Arifa Akbar is the Guardian' s chief theatre critic. A journalist for over twenty years, she is the former literary editor of the Independent, where she also worked as arts correspondent and news reporter. She has previously contributed to the Observer and the Financial Times. She is on the board of trustees for the Orwell Foundation and English PEN. Short pieces of her non-fiction have appeared in several anthologies. Consumed is her first book.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529347524
Published: 10 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 256

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