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An extraordinary, inspirational memoir of surviving the worst ...
Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, chucked a curved ball at her. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. At the age of sixteen, Kirsty's cancer returned. Faced with a devastating prognosis, she threw herself into as much as she could - friends, school, drama, sport, even a life-writing course with Patti Miller. As she said, 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down.'
Against the odds, Kirsty survived. She never achieved gold at the Olympics, but she learned a lot about people, attitudes and resilience.
This is a book about growing up under a shadow that makes you different when you want to be the same; causes hostility where there should be support; and tests the...
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