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
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.
It was written by Dr Kath O’Connor. The tragedy is that the Victorian GP will never read the glowing reviews herself.
She died of ovarian cancer in late 2019 aged just 45, shortly before completing the final draft.
