Memoir about husband’s brain tumour wins prize

Visual artist Marion Coutts’s memoir “The Iceberg” about the time she spent nursing and caring for her writer husband Tom Lubbock as he slowly died of a brain tumor was named the winner on Wednesday of the Wellcome Book Prize 2015.

Coutts’s book was chosen from a shortlist of six finalists for the 30,000 pound ($46,300) cash award, the London-based Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research charity, said in a statement.