7 March 2014
Sorry to hear that Hugo Williams is unwell. The TS Eliot Prize winner has been on dialysis for three years and Heywood Hill, the old Curzon Street bookshop, has sent out an unusual appeal to its customers.
Hugo’s “health is failing fast and soon he will not be fit enough for a kidney transplant,” says its newsletter. It goes on to inform his customers that “His family has just started a Facebook campaign to find him a live donor — please share it far and wide.”
Hugo’s daughter Murphy says the wonderful responses so far have been “his first ray of hope for a long time” with more than 600 people already signed up. “But we are still looking for the one angel who will make the miracle happen.”
