"How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? ... Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her Serbian and her English families, and her lost Yugoslav homeland. A promising young poet who once presented her work to a crowd of thirty thousand, in 1986 she left Yugoslavia for England, confidant that she would be just as good at being English. Then came years of war and exile; she broadcast the news of her homeland's disintegration while her family experienced bombardment and exile move to England. Meanwhile, she had a successful media and academic career, then a cancer diagnosis and its unresolved consequences after the birth of her son, which triggered the recording of her life for him"--Publisher's description.