TALKING WITH ANGEL ABOUT ILLNESS, DEATH AND SURVIVAL Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino Edinburgh: Floris Books 2005, PB 205 pp, AUD 28.95 ISBN 0 86315 492 1

This is the sort of book I feel I ought to like, and it is almost embarrassing to confess that I don't. It comes enthusiastically recommended (on the back cover) by Allan Kellehear whom I admire greatly, and it revolves around the illness and dying of a young girl; so it seems almost irreverent to complain about it.

On the surface, it belongs to the large and growing genre of 'illness narratives'; in this case, told in the voice of a girl of indeterminate age who is diagnosed with an aggressive leukaemia and, at the end of the book, dies of it. ...

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