Black Notley Blues: Diary of a teenage TB patient 1958 - 1959 (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Chris Dell's first book, Black Notley Blues, is a personal testimony detailing his life as a teenage patient in a UK tuberculosis sanatorium taken from his daily diary entries during 1958/1959. Like others he was cooped up and restricted, while gratefully receiving care and treatment from nursing staff, all under the watchful eye of strict matrons. He remarkably recorded his moments of pain, suffering and sheer enlivening enjoyment of life, and is a book we should all read. The Foreword, written by a medical historian at University College London, highlights that "this was a mischievous, courageous teenager who brought a ray of sunshine to the wards, and is the first personal testimony in diary form that I’ve ever seen on this subject. It is entertaining with a Boy’s Own camaraderie, nurse chasing, illicit pub crawls and regular carpeting by matron and medical superintendent over discipline". She adds, “Black Notley Blues has all the ingredients of a 'Carry On' comedy, yet accompanying the fun and games is an important medical, social and personal record of the 1950s sanatorium experience". The book contains over 100 photographs, most of them taken by the author during his stay in the hospital and further recovery in a convalescent home.