I devoured Patterson's first book, I'm Not With The Band. A few years older than me, Patterson was at the heart of the pop culture that sustained me through the Eighties and Nineties and her writing dredged up old memories and the excitement of the days when pop music was unashamedly my life. This book is a different kettle of fish altogether. Patterson, now in her fifties, receives the diagnosis nobody wants just before COVID takes over our lives and spends months dealing with breast cancer, chemo and radiation in a terrifying and uncertain world. A brutally honest book about what it means to wrestle with your mortality. This forces Patterson to make changes to her life she never thought she would want to or have to make. It's a kind of coming of age novel but in your Fifties. It's sad, brutal and yet sometimes extremely funny and it is full of heart.

Absolutely great read - couldn't put it down!