Naked Imperfection: A Memoir

“Gill Deacon's memoir is the story of a young mother who endures a harrowing illness and finds her way to a truth we all need to understand. Her record of loss and discovery is offered with such wit and grace and tender reflection that she kept me reading through the night and reaching for it in the morning. This is a fierce life, beautifully examined, and not to be missed.” – Linda Spalding, award-winning author of The Purchase"Beautifully written and poignantly told, Naked Imperfection is packed with insight, humour and wisdom. It made me laugh and weep and think.” – Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls"Imperfection has never looked so good. Gill Deacon has taken her experience with breast cancer and turned it into a universal parable for our times. A moving and original memoir." – Don Gillmor, award-winning writer and author of Mount Pleasant"A fearless and funny book about cancer and survival that dissects the assumptions behind our toxin-fed, health-obsessed culture along the way, uncovering a core truth – that a great deal of our anxiety about the state of the planet is a proxy for the existential terror borne of own utter lack of control over our own fate. It is to Gill Deacon's credit as a storyteller that such a dark journey seems almost whimsical in her recounting." – Chris Turner, author of The War on Science and The Leap