Kath O'Connor

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Kath O'Connor



Kath O’Connor was a general practitioner, writer, swimmer and medical editor. She had essays and articles published in Eureka Street, The Australian Family Physician and the Medical Journal of Australia. Inheritance was completed after Kath won an Affirm Press mentorship. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2015 and wrote this novel while living with cancer, through many treatments and their side effects. After Kath’s diagnosis, she discovered that she shared a BrCa1 gene mutation with her grandmother, who died from the same disease in 1950. Kath lived in Castlemaine with her partner and their animals and died in 2019 at only 45 years old.

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Inheritance
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