Book Reviews
Welcome to the Amazon Club
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Welcome to the Amazon Club - A remarkable journal of hope, bravery and strength.
RRP: $29.95
Format: 210 X 140 mm, 200 pages
Paperback
Published by Longacre Press, Dunedin
Distributed by Random House,18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland
Welcome to the Amazon Club is a remarkable journey of hope, bravery and strength. It is the account of a year in the author's life from her diagnosis with breast cancer to shortly after her first 'all-clear'. Jane Bissell makes clear-eyed observations of her day to day realities. It's a human look at the nitty-gritty of treatment and its aftermath by someone curious, insightful and intelligent.
Welcome to the Amazon Club succeeds in dispelling the many myths which surround breast cancer and brings to view the possibility of an experience that carries as much empowerment and strange reward as it does difficulty.
Available at all good booksellers May, 2004
