Goodbye Mommy: Memoirs of a Survivor

Lora Lee Boynton

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Why I wrote this book

It is my mission and life’s purpose to share my story of survival with those affected directly and indirectly by the cancer experience.  Goodbye Mommy offers valuable insight into the journey of a cancer patient, offering hope comfort and understanding.  If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like going through cancer, and want to gain a better understanding so that you may either help yourself or a loved one get through a difficult time – this is a book for you!

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At long last my promo video is complete and uploaded on You Tube. Half of all proceeds from the sales of my book are being donated towards integrative cancer care and research, so please forward my video link to as many people as possible and help me to help myself and others going through this dreadful disease. 

 

Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwAzcbgNNiE

Synopsis

A memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family in the United States during the 1970s and 80s, Lora Lee describes how she responded to a chaotic world by closing in on herself and building a shell around her, a shell which is cracked open when she endures cancer treatment for the second time and is forced to take stock of her life up to that point.

Goodbye Mommy explores our relationships with our families, whether completely dysfunctional, adoptive, or more conventional, but the book’s real importance lies beyond that in the way it raises the question of how far our families, upbringing and traumas suffered can seriously affect our health, both immediately and in later life.

Lora Lee’s story is honestly told, without being mawkish or self-pitying. Her recovery from breast cancer provides a happy and hopeful ending.

Reviews

'In Goodbye Mommy, Lora Lee Boynton invites us into the secrets of her heart - her abandoned, dysfunctional childhood, into her astonishing, resilient optimism for life in the face of brutalising abuse; into surviving cancer, not once but twice. Where in the face of so much trauma, can Lora Lee find such a colossal will to live? This is compulsive reading: a book you simply cannot put down.' Pat Pilkington, MBE and Co-founder Penny Brohn Cancer Care

‘A warm, well-constructed, appealing, funny, sad and human tale which many of us can relate to at least in part, or via the experience of family members. It’s a heart-warming book: courageous and valuable.’ Harry Bingham, Author of five novels all from Harper Collins

‘Goodbye Mommy succeeds because of its clear-eyed honesty, and because of the feisty character of the author. Right from the start you can see that she is a bright and interesting child, much wounded perhaps, but resilient nonetheless, and able again and again to triumph over adversity. She never gives up, but battles on doggedly, and it is her charm that wins through. We are on her side, and with her all the way, and in this type of book that is crucial to its success.’ Helena Drysdale, Author of ‘Looking for George’

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