This is a moving memoir of the author's journey through cancer. It's refreshingly honest and real, and really gives the reader a view into all that diagnosis and treatment entails.

Obviously not an “enjoyable” book due to its subject matter, but it was a good insight into bowel cancer, the treatment of it and the indignities people suffering from it have to go through. The author is witty and not at all self pitying. The first half of the book was very interesting and informative but the second part not quite so much. Hopefully Rachel will continue to keep this horrible disease at bay in the future.

Raw, honest, inspirational, strong, real, those are just a few words that I describe this book. Rachel is diagnosed with Stage 4 bowel cancer. She takes you on her journey where she’s taken to hell and back.
As I was reading this I felt it was both an honour and a privilege to be taken on Rachel’s journey.
Beautifully written and excellently executed.
Thank you to both NetGalley and publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my review

I found this book to be heartwarming and inspirational. This is a very candid and personal story of triumph and survival. This book is sometimes humorous and often just an accounting of her dogged deterioration to survive and reclaim her life. This story spans her diagnosis treatment and five (5) years beyond.

Cancer can be such a scary diagnosis leaving on feeling like you are on your last leg of life's journey but the author faced her diagnosis and treatment by facing it bravely while trying to give her family hope. She candidly talks about everything involved with her diagnosis treatment and readjustment back to what she would call a normal but completely different life.

This is a fantastic book for anyone wishing to be inspired by a woman's journey to conquer her fears and move forward with grace during her diagnosis of a terminal illness. This was a fantastic read and I really enjoyed it.

I received this book from NetGalley and Watkins Publishing for an honest review.

An inspiring, emotional and thought provoking read, that looks at what happens when you survive cancer and how do survivors move on from treatment to living their lives, and the lasting affects it has on them.

After avoiding the GP for a while, Rachel was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer, this is a book about her treatment and her life after diagnosis.

In parts the book is funny, some parts of her treatment very honest and open. The writing throughout excellent.

Like many, It seems I preferred the second part, life after diagnosis. Rachel is a very positive person in the second part, infact she talks about how it has changed her life.

Rachel is a survivor.

Excellent writing, laid out well. Thanks for the advanced copy.

A very personal journey of Rachel’s cancer, what she learnt and how she survived.
A hard read but worthwhile.
Surprisingly unsentimental at times and funny through her surgeries and chemotherapy.
Her family and friends were supportive and loving throughout her treatment.

I picked this up to find some solace after my father’s cancer returned. I think it has some inspiring parts and good quotes but overall the organization get a bit all over the place and repetitive in parts.

I feel like this book has some very important messages in it. However I would fully recommend this book to someone who has, had or knows someone with cancer as I feel like it could put their condition into perspective for them and their families and friends.

I was well written, however I feel like it has a very specific target audience.

This is a wonderful memoir. It tells about the authors journey through stage 4 bowel cancer and her life 5 years after. I really enjoyed the second part. It answers questions people don't often think about like how you live after cancer when that is all your life has been about. I would reccomend this book.

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy free of charge. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.

This was a very honest account of Rachel’s life during and after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. I learnt a lot about not only the treatment but the mental and emotional strain that a life threatening and altering disease has on not just the patient but also their loved ones.

Highly recommended.

Rachel Haynes was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer - her prognosis was poor. Yet here she is and writing an uplifting and often humorous account of her diagnosis and treatment, but also how she learns to live as a survivor.
In some ways I found this second section more interesting: it’s perhaps something we don’t think about. How do you live when you essentially return to normal life but you are far from the same person you were?
Haynes remains positive despite her horrible experiences and she also tells us about some of the ways she has changed her life post-cancer, from religion to therapies.
An honest and moving account that tracks Haynes’ experience through cancer and five years beyond. Recommended.