![]() ![]() This idiosyncratic and deeply personal memoir is a writer's take on how language shapes us, and how often we take it for granted - until we are in danger of losing it. The Museum of Words is a meditation on writing, reading, first words and last words, picking up thread after thread as it builds on each story to become a much larger narrative. All three of them are writers, with language at the core of their being. She died thirteen months later, in December 2016. Blain knew that, at best, she ‘wouldn’t last more than a couple of years’. At the same time, her mother, Anne Deveson, moves into a nursing home with Alzheimer's weeks earlier, her best friend and mentor had been diagnosed with the same brain tumour. Georgia Blain began to write The Museum of Words shortly after undergoing surgery for removal of an aggressive, malignant tumour from the language centre in her brain. After the shock of a bleak prognosis and a long, gruelling treatment schedule, she immediately turns to writing to rebuild her language and herself. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. She ignored it, and on a bright spring day, as she was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Prior to this, Georgia's only warning had been a niggling sense that her speech was slightly awry. ![]() In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her brain. ![]()
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