Scottish author releasing her first novel written over the span of seven years while battling brain tumour
dailyrecord.co.ukAn Ayrshire author is releasing her debut novel 'Silenda' - written after her brain tumour diagnosis at the age of 14 when she became aware of her own mortality for the first time.Kelsie Stroker, 22, is feeling "ecstatic" to release her first novel on April 1, after working on it on-and-off over the span of seven years.
Kelsie, who is from Kilmarnock and now based in Glasgow where she completed her degree in English Literature and English Language and Linguistics, told Ayrshire Live: "This book has been in the works for a very long time and I am so pleased to finally share it with people.
It definitely harbours a lot of my questions and my emotions in the transition from being a teenager into adulthood."The story was born in 2016 but it was a project that involved a lot of learning and redrafting.
Because I was writing it as I was growing up, there was a lot I had to learn about the world, and about myself, before I could really do the story justice."The author was diagnosed with depression at only 12 years-old and two years later, at the age of 14, was diagnosed with brain tumour.
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