The Perfection of Hope: A Journey Back from Cancer

Your beautiful book of shared experiences is heartening. --Carol Shields, 1999After more than ten years of cancer-free, vibrant living, bestselling author Elizabeth Simpson's experience offers offers a ray of hope for those seeking paths to both physical and emotional healing.In 1996, Simpson was given an inoperable lung cancer diagnosis, and little chance of long-term survival. Instead of giving in, she worked on perfecting hope, both in her life, and in this memoir of cancer recovery and survival.In the decade since The Perfection of Hope became an instant classic on cancer survival, Simpson's way of integrating physical and spiritual healing has proven its own success. The combination of alternative and complementary therapies that have helped her survive beyond even her own expectations has become an accepted approach to cancer treatment.In this revised, expanded edition of her bestselling memoir, Simpson shares five all-new chapters that explore the scope and human toll of cancer. Sometimes sweet, sometimes bittersweet, and always poignant, she gives all those touched by cancer perfect proof--that there is always hope.