Fields of Gold: Celebrating Life in the Face of Cancer

'You'll remember me …' It's a privilege for Rosa Mira Books to have published Fields of Gold: Celebrating Life in the Face of Cancer, a story of two sisters. Yesterday it was launched forth from the Chingford Park stables in Dunedin amidst toasts, tears, laughter, gratitude, friends, family and colleagues of the authors. In the wake of news that her only sister, Annie McGregor, had terminal cancer, Pam Morrison began to write a journal. Very soon it became a shared container; a form of slow dialogue between the two, and a way to capture the mystery, beauty and bewilderment of their lives. Over the following year, the ritual of shared writing provided a safe place for naming what was otherwise too tender to be spoken. Pam and Annie's journal, Fields of Gold, traces their transformational journey. Its honesty, its eloquent, gutsy prose and imagery, sound and resound in the reader. This is a glorious, tragic, strong-hearted duet sung in celebration of life's multiplicity in the face of death. A few weeks after diagnosis, Annie wrote: 'Last night the kids were here. There was music playing, the sounds of whistling and chopping, cooking noises, recipes being changed. I was in front of the fire under the mohair rug. And I tell you what: I was in heaven, or pretty close to it, about five kilometres away. Sometimes I wonder: why didn’t I come to this place earlier? Then I remember – oh, that’s right!'  Read more. And here's an interview with Pam in which she writes: 'Seizing a pencil was a desperate act to make some scrawls on paper about a reality that felt too big, too crazy, too unthinkable to absorb.' Fields of Gold is available here in PDf, ePub and Mobi (Kindle) files for USD9. Pam also has hard copies available for NZD30 plus postage - http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=887f08477ca4323d2de48445e&id=7cd9042cf5&e=3ede2725e8