![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() _Praise for Between Two Kingdoms: 'A work of breathtaking creativity and heart-stopping humanity.' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of Eat Pray Love'A beautiful, elegant and heart-breaking book that provides a glimpse into the kingdom of illness.' SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies'No more doomscrolling. Drawing on Suleika's TED Talk, now with 4 million views, it illuminates universal questions about how we live, mourn, heal and grow up, and what it means to begin again. ![]() At twenty-seven, and celebrating her first year of remission, Suleika realized that, having survived, she now had no idea how to live.Īnd so she set out to meet some of the many strangers who had written to her about their experiences of life, death, healing and recovery in response to her Emmy-Award winning New York Times column, 'Life Interrupted'. At just twenty-two, on the cusp of adult life, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival.įor the next five years, her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. When things don't go to plan this is the book to reach for - an inspirational memoir about what we can learn about life from a brush with death. 'A propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude - and an intimate portrait of one woman's sojourn in the wilderness between life and death.' TARA WESTOVER, author of Educated_We all face moments that bring us to our knees: heartbreak, trauma, illness. ![]()
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