I received a copy of this book from Penguin Random House in exchange for an honest review.

At 90 years of age, Edith Eger sat down to finally write the heartbreaking yet at times heart-lifting memoir of the most traumatic time of her life - when she was a teenager and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. This book is not about the terrible things that Edith went through but the long journey in which she came to deal with her past, and how she slowly began to learn to live and enjoy life once again.

Edith Eger is one smart lady - there's such a beautiful voice in this book, within the words on the page and it definitely feels like Edith is speaking directly to you. It's not hard to see why she became such a popular psychologist amongst her patients, and she's definitely a very calming person but also someone that has a mischievous edge to her.

I actually like that this book ended up being a little bit different to what I thought it would be. Edith's time in the death camp is actually only a very small part of the book - about the first quarter - and the rest is her slow journey through her PTSD and how long it took her to accept all the parts of herself and eventually confront her past in an intense trip back to Auschwitz.

Edith shows an amazing respect to human life, and all human conditions in her book. Even with what she's gone through, she never puts one person's pain over another and treat every one, and every patient, the same which is honestly remarkable. I just felt so calm and reassured as I read Edith's words about accepting oneself, loving yourself and striving forward despite difficulties. This is the kind of book you could pick up at any point in your life, through different difficulties, big or small, and read something that would resonate and help you.

Beautiful words from a beautiful lady. If we can all learn a little bit from Edith, the world would be a better place.