Cancer and Pisces
One man's story of his unique survival of cancer, interwoven with the joy and succour of fishing
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In 2013, Mick May was diagnosed with the fatal asbestos-linked cancer, mesothelioma, whose average medical life expectancy is 10 months.
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Meet the author Mick May
On leaving the University of St Andrews, Mick May spent twenty years in finance where increasingly he saw himself (pretty accurately) as the worst banker in the City of London. His second career saw him set up and grow the social enterprise Blue Sky, once described by David Cameron (again pretty accurately) as “the only company in the country where you need a criminal record to work there”. Over the past decade and a half it has succeeded in employing almost 2,000 released prisoners. In 2016 his work with ex-offenders was recognised by the award of an OBE.
Since retirement on medical grounds in 2015 he has chaired the boards of a couple of charities and an academy.
Mick is married to Jill and they have six children. He is an avid reader of history books and an extraordinarily keen angler. He continues to fish to this day.
Reviews for Cancer and Pisces
In his new book, each milestone, struggle and success is portrayed against a backdrop of fishing…May writes honestly and humorously of days by the river transporting him to “another world”.
The Daily Telegraph
We highly recommend you read this inspiring book
Trout and Salmon magazine
Fishing is the balm to all troubles, frequently on the Mottisfont beat of his beloved River Test, but also as far afield as Patagonia and Russia. There cannot be many anglers for whom the diagnosis of a killer disease results in a dramatic increase in catches, but Mick May is one of them.
Adrian Dangar, The Field
This quirky, intriguing and inspirational memoir is the sort of book you could admire and enjoy even if you had not the slightest interest in fishing.
David Profumo
A tale of tails, fishy and fabulous, and in aid of an important cause, full of humour, full of heart.
Gyles Brandreth
An inspiring book
Daily Mail
