Jenny Diski reveals inoperable cancer diagnosis

Author says that she is writing about her condition despite anxiety that hers will tell the 'same story' as other memoirs

The author Jenny Diski, in a bravura essay for the London Review of Books, has laid out the details of her inoperable cancer diagnosis, writing: "Under no circumstances is anyone to say that I lost a battle with cancer. Or that I bore it bravely. I am not fighting, losing, winning or bearing."

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