By: Sophie Kinsella
Hennepin County Library hardcover 120 pages plus author's note and acknowledgements
Published: 2024
Genre: realistic fiction
Oh my. I read a reference to this and requested it from the library. I'm not a huge Kinsella fan, but am aware of her fiction, especially the Shopaholic series. After reading this book, I went online to find that Kinsella died December 10, 2025. Less than a month ago, she was alive. She was just shy of her 56th birthday. Wow.
This book is fiction, but she called it her "most autobiographical" book so far. It's her final book, unless there are other manuscripts that will be published posthumously. Eve is a writer with a devoted husband and five children. She wakes up in a hospital one day, struggling to remember what happened. She had a brain tumor, a cancerous glioblastoma, removed. Onward to chemotherapy and radiation.
The book is short, touching, and worth reading. Some of her anecdotes on dealing with cancer treatment ring reminders for me of my friends who have traveled that path. Her husband's loving devotion and her clear concern for her children brought tears to my eyes. This is a beautiful and painful book (painful knowing it is fairly true to her life).
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