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The Boudica Within
Posted by Kate Sullivan

Last year I read an article called ‘Treasured Chests’ in an issue of The Sunday Times Magazine. The article was promoting a book called ‘The Boudica Within’ which featured the most beautiful, bare and honest photographs of women who had fought breast cancer, faced treatment and who had then gone through reconstruction surgery.

The idea for the book was conceived by Elaine Sassoon, a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, with photographs taken by Andrea Hare, a former patient of Sassoon's. Elaine wanted to show women naked, post re-construction surgery looking beautiful and non-airbrushed. Her aim, to encourage and help other women considering breast reconstruction surgery.

The book can be purchased online from the website The Boudica Within, where all proceeds will go to cancer charities.

This Saturday I will be running the Race for Life here in Norwich, to raise money for Cancer Research. If you would like to sponsor me, that would be fabulous. Simply click here and follow the instructions. In advance - thank you.

Posted by Kate Sullivan on May 1st, 2008