What do you do if you have two bratty teenage kids who don't give you the time of day, a husband who is more interested in his remote than you and you're forever being compared to your perfect sister - who just happened to marry your perfect boyfriend? And what do you do if you're told you have stage 4 breast cancer? Well, if you're Raquel Rose, you tell your family your diagnosis and then you watch them go from treating you like dirt to treating you like a queen. Then you go on to raise unprecedented amounts of money for breast cancer research, fulfil your early artistic promise and you find you love this new life of yours.
So when the doctor calls to tell her that there was a mistake and she's actually perfectly healthy, instead of sharing her good news, Raquel can't relinquish the sudden attention and love from her family. Soon Raquel's lie by omission snowballs and the mistaken diagnosis becomes the fated opportunity to fix the glaring problems in her life. And while she wants to tell the truth, she's afraid to give it all up...
- ISBN10 0446697931
- ISBN13 9780446697934
- Publish Date 4 September 2008 (first published 15 August 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grand Central Publishing
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 384
- Language English