Colin Amery

How long have I got?

It was the neon lit windowless corridor in the surgery in Dumfries that did it.

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  • The Architecture of Hope: Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres

    Charles Jencks and Edwin Heathcote

    Frances Lincoln, pp. 224

It was the neon lit windowless corridor in the surgery in Dumfries that did it. It was June 1993 when Maggie Keswick and her husband Charles Jencks heard the prognosis that she had two to three months to live as the breast cancer had spread to her liver and her bones.

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