Life after death: A GP’s cancer diagnosis and the haunting novel she wrote before she died

Dr Kath O'Connor kept writing her debut novel to the very end of ovarian cancer treatment
Dr Kath O’Connor.

Last month a novel about the lives of two women haunted by the BRCA1 gene mutation was published.

Called Inheritance it has already received rave reviews for its eloquent fictional account of life, death and dying.