Super-Cannes by JG Ballard.
When a convalescent pilot follows his paediatrician wife to a shiny new enclave called Eden-Olympia, which on the surface seems to embody that title. But it's JGB, so there is cancer underneath the canvas boat covers
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. In a really perverse way, he cheers me up. Recommended, but not for a first timer cough.