TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van der Stap,Sophie
TI  - The girl with nine wigs: a memoir 
SN  - 9781849538688 (paperback)
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex
PB  - Summersdal Publishers
KW  - Van der Stap, Sophie
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Biography
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Women
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Baldness
N1  - Originally published in the Netherlands by Prometheus Amsterdam under the title Meisje met negen pruiken, 2007
N2  - Sophie is 21 when she is diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer. A striking, fun-loving student, she finds her world reduced overnight to the sterile confines of a hospital. But within these walls Sophie discovers a whole new world of gossiping nurses and sexy doctors, and of hair loss and eyebrow pencils.

As Sophie faces the challenges of chemotherapy, wigs – now a crucial part of her life – become a powerful form of self-expression. Each of her nine wigs makes her feel stronger and gives her a distinct personality, and that is why each has its own name: Stella, Sue, Daisy, Blondie, Platina, Uma, Pam, Lydia and Bebé. There’s a bit of Sophie in all of them, and they reveal as much as they hide. Sophie is determined to be much more than a cancer patient
ER  -