Coma victim publishes her ‘lost novel’
A WOMAN who spent three months in a coma will see the debut novel she had completely forgotten she was writing appear in print.
Alexandra Singer, 29, suffered memory loss after a near-fatal attack of cerebral lupus in 2008 and had no idea she had begun work on the book.
She was told by doctors she might never be able to walk again and spent months fighting paralysis.
While she was in hospital, her brother, Joshua, found the notes to the novel, Tea at the Grand Tazi, while clearing out her London flat.
Ms Singer, from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, then taught herself to write again as she returned to the book.
She said: “My experience was horrendous. The doctors thought I would be brain-damaged and for six months I was paralysed and couldn’t speak.
“But the book helped me to pull through. I apparently had the idea before the illness but was too busy to write it.”
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