# The Leopard in my House

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- Book: [The Leopard in my House](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-steel/the-leopard-in-my-house) ([The Leopard in my House.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-steel/the-leopard-in-my-house.md))
- Authors: [Mark Steel](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-steel)
- Publisher: ebury_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 36 min
- Narrated by: Mark Steel
- ISBN: 978-15-2994-350-4
- Published: 2025-02-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 6 h 36 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘I feel like there’s a leopard in my house, locked in a room. I’ve contacted the leopard authorities and they assure me they are used to dealing with leopards like this, and they have a plan for removing the leopard. It will take a while, though, and once in a while I can hear it growl. And that’s all very reassuring. Even so, several times a day I think to myself: “Hang on, there’s a leopard in my house.”’ One morning, while shaving, the comedian Mark Steel noticed that one side of his neck seemed larger than the other. After a whistlestop tour of assorted medical professionals, a consultant delivered the ominous words that would define the next months of his life: ‘I’m afraid it’s not good news, Mr Steel’. And so began a journey into the heart of the NHS, as he embarked on the long and uncertain road to cancer recovery via a range of mildly torturous and entirely miraculous treatments. What, if anything, might he learn about himself – and our capacity for coping with life when times get tough – as he becomes part of a club that one in two British people will ultimately join? A frank and funny diary of one man’s rather trying year, this is an unforgettable and uplifting story of getting ill, getting on with it, and getting better. © Mark Steel 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025