The Bright Side Running Club

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Summary:

When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she's only just met. Totally blind-sided, all she can think about is how she doesn't want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club. And yet it's running - hot, sweaty, lycra-clad running in the company of brilliant, funny women all going through treatment - that unexpectedly gives Keira the hope she so urgently needs. Because Keira will not be defined by the C-word. And now, with the Cancer Ladies' Running Club cheering her on, she is going to reclaim everything: her family, her identity, and her life. One step at a time.

General Note:

Includes a Q&A with the author.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

341 pages ; 21 cm

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Subject Term:

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction.

Runners (Sports) -- Fiction.

Clubs -- Fiction.

Women -- Societies and clubs -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Alcove Press,

Publication Date:

2022

ISBN:

9781643859491

Publication Information:

New York : Alcove Press, 2022.

Call Number:

LLOYD

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Summary

Josie Lloyd's fearless novel is a tribute to the power of the human spirit in the face of hardship, based on the author's own experience with cancer and community.

In the vein of Mary Ellen Taylor's Honeysuckle Season this "amazing, breathtaking, and inspiring" (Jenny Colgan) novel is full of hope and heart.

When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she's only just met. Totally blind-sided, all she can think about is how she doesn't want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club.

And yet it's running - hot, sweaty, lycra-clad running in the company of brilliant, funny women all going through treatment - that unexpectedly gives Keira the hope she so urgently needs. Because Keira will not be defined by the C-word. And now, with the Cancer Ladies' Running Club cheering her on, she is going to reclaim everything: her family, her identity, and her life.

One step at a time.

Moving, uplifting and full of hope, this is a beautifully crafted novel about love, family and the power of finding your tribe.

Author Notes

Josie Lloyd's first novel, It Could Be You , was published in 1997 and since then she has written 15 bestselling novels (under various pen names), including the number one hit Come Together , which she co-authored with her husband, Emlyn Rees, which was number one for 10 weeks, published in 27 languages and made into a Working Title film. Josie has also written several best-selling parodies with Emlyn, including We're Going On A Bar Hunt , The Very Hungover Caterpillar and The Teenager Who Came To Tea .