Struggled to get into this book, but after a few chapters I was hooked & wanted desperately to see how Emma's life unravelled - just how much can one young Mum endure & come out the other side. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me smile.

It feels a bit odd to sit down and write a review of someone's memoir, it's not like they've generally had much control over what's happened in their life. That's what really strikes me about Emma, the universe literally shat upon her from a height, secondary infertility, triplets, difficult marriage breakdown and then cancer on top. This could easily have been a "misery memoir" but it isn't, it's a lovely tale of hope and friendship. Mostly hope and I wish her a nice peaceful future.

I received All That Followed as an ARC from Netgalley. I wanted to read this book because I'm also a breast cancer survivor and a parent of multiples but I have twins instead of triplets. This is a memoir of Emma's struggles with 2 roads of breast cancer while being a single parent to toddler triplets and an older child. My twins were 15 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer but I was still able to identify with Emma. A good read with insight into coping with devastation in your life.

A True Story of Triplets, Friends, Cancer, Love, Loss and Laughter. This was such a privilege to get to read. I am deeply moved by this family’s journey. I hope everyone out there fighting the fight gets a chance to read this book. Emma is an extraordinary woman.

I liked the story and could relate to it, but for me one major unanswered question left me feeling frustrated and annoyed. Why was Marc cut off totally from seeing his children? What dd he do, if anything, to deserve being banished so completely from his children's lives? This drove me crazy, and for this reason I couldn't give it more stars. If anyone reading this has an explanation, please reply. Thanks!

An emotional inspirational story where Emma still manages to make the reader laugh through her darkest times.
Exceptional !!

What a privilege it has been to read and review Emma Campbell’s All That Followed: A True Story of Triplets, Friends, Cancer, Love, Loss and Laughter. Emma experienced a true Job experience and came through whole, which she describes so beautifully in this inspirational, often hilarious and ever engrossing memoir. Highly recommended! 5/5

Pub Date 09 Aug 2018

Thanks to Mirror Books and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

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This is a story about an extraordinary woman. Emma has written this honest and soul searching book which tells of her terrible journey through cancer. Emma already had one young child, recently split up from her partner, and just a few months after giving birth to triplets is diagnosed with breast cancer. She then faces the enormous task of going through all the treatments whilst coping with the above. It is a story of immense courage and fantastic support from family and friends, but with plenty of laughter and tears. Emma is an inspiration to others and a true survivor.
Thanks to NetGalley and Mirror books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

One of the best of its kind - a superb memoir.

I've read quite a few cancer memoirs before. This was one of the best I have read, and it contains so much more-it doesn't just focus on her cancer and treatment. This lady has the diagnosis only months after giving birth to triplets. She also has another older son. Emma and French partner Marc had wanted another baby, and after miscarriages, they ended up going the IVF route-then one baby turned out three. As well as the enormous task of looking after all the babies, she has to deal with their relationship breaking up, and she also finds out she has breast cancer.

This was a very good book, so well-written, incredibly honest, and an unexpectedly easy read concerning the subject matter. There was so much more in it, so much more than a cancer journey. She has had so much to get through, and all at the same time. It had a good balance-the hard news and then happier, nostalgic memories of childhood and family life. There isn't too much detail about the chemo, radiotherapy, and mastectomy and reconstruction surgeries.

It's definitely not all gloom-it was uplifting too. She tells of after treatment ends; getting back to living her life to the full again, starting new things. It really was a superb memoir. There was a beautiful love story in there too; a fairy tale romance-and a hilarious ending to their short break away! One of the best memoirs I've read recently.