Living with…. the book
Last updated: 20th Oct, 2009
Living with… is a powerful, evocative and thought-provoking series of 34 articles written by people who have a range of different medical “conditions”. The contributors offer the unique privilege of understanding the day-to-day reality of their “living with”; a perspective rarely given the time and attention it deserves. They are ordinary people living in extraordinary circumstances, battling to retain their dignity and their sense of worth and purpose in a world that can be at best thoughtless, and at worst, cruel.
Living with… arose out of a collaboration between mosaic: shaping disability services (mosaic) and Just Services. mosaic produces a bi-monthly newsletter called mosaic news. We invited anyone who was interested to write an article from their own perspective about what it meant to them to live with any particular medical “condition”. mosaic was successful in getting a small grant to support this project and formed a partnership with Just Services who had Arts Council funding to work with disabled writers. These articles form the book “Living with…”
The success of ‘Living with…’ has inspired further writers to express their feelings about living with a medical condition. These articles regularly appear in the bi-monthly mosaic news. In mosaic we are aiming to publish a second edition of ‘Living with…’ in 2010. If you are interested in writing a ‘Living with…’ article or wish to buy a copy of the first volume, please contact Barbara Howard on 0116 2515565 or email director@mosaic1898.co.uk