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

Kate is dealing with a lot as she moves out of her home following the breakdown of her marriage. With three children to support and an ex-husband preoccupied with his new, younger girlfriend and baby she's terrified of what will happen next and then her only daughter Jess is diagnosed with cancer. As Jess gets sicker but the family come together in support, Kate may have to face up to one of the hardest things she will ever have to do - allow her daughter to die.

This book is quite touching and emotional and will definitely leave many people weeping a bit at times (so probably not one to finish on the train home!). The story is quite easy to read and while I found the writing a bit simple at first I got used to it and the story began to flow quite naturally for me. At first I was a but unsure of some of the other POV's added such as Piper's but I got used to them and eventually liked them.

One of my main frustrations in this book was Nick, Kate's ex-husband. Literally everything he did was annoying, frustrating and over the top and he was just the type of character that would make any reader mutter under their breath. Even when Jess was sick, he would go off on one and shout at hospital employees and while I understand why he reacted the way he did at the end, I still hated him. I felt there was very little character development and for the entire book he remained an egotistical, selfish, d-head.

I also would have preferred to not have had to read Bobby's diary - I understand the point of it to see Bobby's side but I'm not sure it was really necessary plus, I didn't really want to read a deliberately misspelled kid writing diary.I actually thought considering how smart Bobby was with a lot of things, his writing and spelling would be good - or at least way better than what it was in the 'diary.'

While, I liked the ending as much as I could like an ending like that I think there would definitely be some people, depending on their own beliefs and feelings about the issue, that might find it very, very hard to read. I personally do not have ill feelings towards what ended up being of the main points of the book and would be an advocate for it, but others might find it more difficult. This is a good book for an emotional read but I would warn people off who may have had close friends or family members ill with cancer or a similar disease and/or those who find it tough to read about children with an illness.