Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer

by Lynn Redgrave, Annabel Clark

With heart-rending honesty, in bittersweet moments as beautiful as they are difficult, yet with humor and optimism throughout, Annabel Clark’s photographs and her mother Lynn Redgrave’s journal entries illustrate a mother-daughter journey through the leading cause of cancer diagnosed in women today.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2004

About the author

Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE, was an English actress.

A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s she had appeared in several films, including Tom Jones (1963), and Georgy Girl (1966) which won her a New York Film Critics Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

In 1967, she made her Broadway debut, and performed in several stage productions in New York while making frequent returns to London's West End. She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London, and in the title role in a television production of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as Shine (1996) and Gods and Monsters (1998), for which she received another Academy Award nomination.