Suleika Jaouad

An Emmy-award winning writer's moving and inspirational memoir exploring what we can learn about life from a brush with death. At just twenty-two, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukaemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival. For five years her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. She became patient 5624. At...

A guide to the art of journalling and meditation on the central questions of life, from the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms. Suleika Jaouad's journal has been a lifelong companion—marking life's great occasions and helping her ride its roughest waves, through illness, heartbreak, and the deepest oceans of uncertainty. Like Suleika, many consider it a transformative and often vulnerable...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post,...