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The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts (view source)
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|publisher=Atlantic Books
|date=July 2014
|website=http://www.marioncoutts.com/
|summary=A devastating yet mysteriously gorgeous account of a husband's decline and death from a brain tumour. Its mixture of understated narration and artistic whimsy is astonishing. Without a doubt one of the best books of 2014.
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'''Winner: Wellcome Book Prize 2015'''
'Something has happened. A piece of news. We have had a diagnosis that has the status of an event. The news makes a rupture with what went before.' With these plain, unsentimental words Coutts begins her devastating yet mysteriously gorgeous account of her husband Tom Lubbock's decline and death from a brain tumour. Shortlisted for the Costa Biography award and longlisted for the ''Guardian'' First Book Award, it was also a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Coutts has turned the impossible, the unbearable, into a singular work of art – without a doubt one of the best books of 2014.
A husband's speech loss and a wife's attempts to cope are elements shared with [[One Hundred Names for For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman]]. On related topics, we can also recommend [[The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery by George Johnson]] and [[A Tour of Bones: Facing Fear and Looking for Life by Denise Inge]]. {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2014}}
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