A moving thought-provoking & surprisingly humorous book which is both a description of a journey to death & a celebration of the act of living Based on Clare Wise's blog which she started when she was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013 Not That Kind of Love charts the highs & lows of the last three years of Clare's life The end result is not a book that fills you with despair & anguish On the contrary Not That Kind of Love should be read by everybody for its candour & for its warmth & spirit Clare is an astonishingly dynamic witty & fun personality & her positivity & energy exude from every page As she becomes too weak to type her brother
- the actor Greg Wise
- takes over & the book morphs into a beautiful meditation on life & the necessity of talking about death With echoes of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal & Cathy Rentzenbrink's The Last Act of Love it is a very special read that rejoices in the extraordinary & often underestimated sibling bond & the importance of making the most of the ordinary pleasures life has to offer As Greg Wise writes in the book ' Celebrate the small things the small moments If you find yourself with matching socks as you leave the house in the morning that is a cause for celebration If the rest of the day is spent finding the cure for cancer or brokering world peace then that's a bonus'