There are numerous ways to structure an autobiography, but most writers go for the obvious, chronological approach. This book is different. She writes about a year in her life, with each chapter covering a month - a very challenging year in which she faces the deaths of both her parents and her own diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. She uses this chronology as a vehicle to introduce "flashbacks" that cover her earlier life. Somehow this just works.
The book is written in a clear, straightforward - perhaps journalistic - way, which makes it quite easy to read. But there is much sensitivity and emotion in the words. For me, a lot was close to home: chemotherapy, the death of a loved one and encounters with a care home and a hospice.
It kept me reading to the end and I think a lot of the story will stick with me.
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