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Gone Upstream : Special Edition of "The Better Side of Cancer" with photos
It is a special edition with coloured photos of a previous book The Better Side of Cancer.“Gone Upstream” starts with the journey to the past into the childhood from curfew and communistic regime to colourful descriptions of the Norwegian adventure, a trip to the Arctic to the American Military Base.
Every object unlocks an attic for the author, which serves a key to survival.
The book is an intimate family story. Photographs and incidents from her travelling solo-handed for thousands of kilometres, having only 20 dollars in a pocket to the anecdotes of a sunken ship, will strike a light in the author's memory.
Her life will transform into a fascinating adventure from meeting a famous writer, whose house became her home for years, a TV celebrity chef whom she met on her way to horse riding in frost of minus 25 Celsius in the middle of the sparkling night.
You will feel the thrills reading about her yacht with the family onboard that was drifting into the deep ocean, fighting for survival.
All of this creates an appealing narrative that shows the author’s life that very often was under the current, with difficulties thrown by horror fate.
From happy memories from the innocent childhood, the stormy times of the regime to the current lockdown in 2020, made this book a contemporary read that resonates with the reader’s mind in times of the current pandemic.
You will find the
What is it like when you overcome the deadly disease?
What is it like to fight cancer and become a different person afterwards?
Was cancer a blessing not a tragedy?
Will she become a successful entrepreneur because of her struggles?
Her life was a trip to various countries when each of the lands was a passport to her inner discovery.
Written in a form of a novel with the main character being the author, the book transforms a reader into the story that will melt your heart.
You will shed a tear on many scenes and you will laugh out loud when you see incidents in the cancer experience of the author that were so funny that made her treatment easier to accomplish.
You learn through the story that cancer does not need to be scary, if only you take its throat into your hands, not vice versa.
The book is a remedy for those who struggle to overcome difficulties in their lives. The author discovered that cancer was a blessing in its tragedy that changed her life for the better.
Every object unlocks an attic for the author, which serves a key to survival.
The book is an intimate family story. Photographs and incidents from her travelling solo-handed for thousands of kilometres, having only 20 dollars in a pocket to the anecdotes of a sunken ship, will strike a light in the author's memory.
Her life will transform into a fascinating adventure from meeting a famous writer, whose house became her home for years, a TV celebrity chef whom she met on her way to horse riding in frost of minus 25 Celsius in the middle of the sparkling night.
You will feel the thrills reading about her yacht with the family onboard that was drifting into the deep ocean, fighting for survival.
All of this creates an appealing narrative that shows the author’s life that very often was under the current, with difficulties thrown by horror fate.
From happy memories from the innocent childhood, the stormy times of the regime to the current lockdown in 2020, made this book a contemporary read that resonates with the reader’s mind in times of the current pandemic.
You will find the
What is it like when you overcome the deadly disease?
What is it like to fight cancer and become a different person afterwards?
Was cancer a blessing not a tragedy?
Will she become a successful entrepreneur because of her struggles?
Her life was a trip to various countries when each of the lands was a passport to her inner discovery.
Written in a form of a novel with the main character being the author, the book transforms a reader into the story that will melt your heart.
You will shed a tear on many scenes and you will laugh out loud when you see incidents in the cancer experience of the author that were so funny that made her treatment easier to accomplish.
You learn through the story that cancer does not need to be scary, if only you take its throat into your hands, not vice versa.
The book is a remedy for those who struggle to overcome difficulties in their lives. The author discovered that cancer was a blessing in its tragedy that changed her life for the better.
338 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 9, 2021
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Yvonne Anderson
18 books5 followersYvonne Anderson is a traveller of the World, born, educated and married in Edinburgh Scotland, she has lived in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand for over a decade. Now back in Scotland she has fulfilled her ambition to publish her first book before she turned 40.
She has worked as a nurse, a support worker, a lifestyle coach, a mindfulness trainer and currently in customer success for an International Sculpting business.
She has worked as a nurse, a support worker, a lifestyle coach, a mindfulness trainer and currently in customer success for an International Sculpting business.
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