
A Substack about how art and literature can help those with chronic illness through the dark times
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Hello and welcome to The Art of Convalescence.
A few days ago, at my parents’ house in Northumberland, I had sudden onset diplopia. One minute I was staring vacantly at the chair in my bedroom, the next, there were two chairs, not juxtapos...
Why does a prisoner, on entering his cell for the first time, go straight to the barred window to look outside? The window is an aperture to a world he can no longer access, to the freedom he has foregone. But is also a gateway to daydreams...
‘Considering how common illness is … it [is] strange indeed that [it] has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.’ Virginia Woolf wrote these words in her 1926 essay ‘On Being Ill’.
For...
They’re all mistakes, children! Filthy, nasty things. Glad I never was one – Miss Trunchbull in Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda’
The first few weeks and months of post-viral illness are the most important ones. If one behaves sensibly, and rests, th...
I never expected to find myself in the back of a Chinese massage parlour on the Finchley Road. But what happened next was even more surprising.
And, yes, you have guessed correctly: what began as a rather delightful manipulation of the rho...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
English teacher; writer; impatient long Covid patient
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