Chronic: Understanding Pain

Lived experience might not be a necessary condition of writing about chronic pain but it does help.

As well as being a novelist (her debut novel, The Last Wave, was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award) Gillian Best also suffers from a multitude of ailments including ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s and Raynaud’s diseases which clearly gives her first-hand expertise of the subject.

But in this fascinating investigation Best goes far beyond her own personal brief, seeking out researchers and scientists at the cutting-edge of work that may hold the key to finally understanding and effectively treating this debilitating condition.

The science is up-to-date as well as accessible, and the personal narrative makes for compelling reading.

Highly recommended!

 

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Chronic: Understanding Pain, by Gillian Best, price £20 is available in bookshops and online.