Me and My Shadow – memoirs of a cancer survivor was placed third in the New York Book Festival Awards 2023, and placed third in the London Book Festival Awards 2024. It has received a nomination for the 2024 New England Book Festival Awards.

Award-winning author, John Walker Pattison has created an inspirational chronicle. A book that anyone touched by a cancer diagnosis should read. It has fifteen independent reviews (all five stars), plus more than thirty reviews on Amazon (all five stars) and over a dozen reviews on Goodreads (all five stars). 

This is a true chronicle from three perspectives – he was diagnosed with cancer at eighteen years of age. After years of failed treatments, his parents were told that he would not survive. Yet eight years after his unexpected recovery, his four-year-old daughter is diagnosed with terminal leukaemia – he went on to become a cancer nurse specialist at the hospital that made his diagnosis decades earlier.

Today, he is one of the longest cancer survivors in the UK and recently has once again embarked upon another cancer battle of his own. A remarkable memoir that is poignant, funny and most of all, inspirational.

Today, he is once again, facing a cancer battle – but he remains philosophical and determined.