I love when an author is obviously drawing on their own experiences when writing a story – the fact that this particular book focusses on cancer meant there was little doubt this was going to be moving. This book is about more than a woman simply adjusting to life with a cancer diagnosis, or surviving treatment. I will not say more about the book itself, it deserves to be read if you want to find out more. However, I will just say that this was an exceptionally well written tale. There are parts that are really hard to read, but only because you know they are so true. It might be fiction, but there is a realness and rawness to the words that kind of grab you by the collar and shake you about a bit. It takes quite a lot for me to well up, but I did on multiple occasions with this. The author has done a brilliant job of really pulling you in. Equally, many of those tears were for joy, hope and the sheer beauty of what I was reading. It wasn’t actually all that sad – just very, very exceptional.