The Other Side of Tomorrow

 By: Hayley Lawrence

Location: FIC LAW

Genre: Illness, cancer, family

What if you thought you had forever ... To live your life. To tell your story. But what if forever was taken from you? When your tomorrows are counted, all you have is this moment. And this story you wish was never yours to tell. When Abby traded her life in the city for a wholesome new life on the coast, it was meant to be a fresh start for her family. Behind them was the sickness and sadness of the past. But sickness doesn’t always play by the rules. And as Abby’s past threatens to swallow her future, she is forced to decide what is most important. What she will fight for. And she will fight. For however many days she has left.

"A heart-wrenching read. Abby is 15 has been in remission for 13 years. Then her cancer comes back. A well written story of the pain and heartbreak as Abby goes through chemo, falls in love and loses another friend to cancer." Sandra

"So sad. Right from the start it is confronting. Death. Death of a teenager. The journey towards accepting death as a teenager and the relationships it impacts along the way. Abby is a character that you connect with straight away and her relationship with her dad and boy Jesse. You know that it is going to end with sadness and not have a happy ending. But somehow it’s ok and if there wasn’t death at the end the book it wouldn’t have served it’s purpose. Really allows the reader to think about their own mortality "