The Bright Side Running Club
Heartbreaking
Meaningful
Pure

The Bright Side Running Club A Novel of Breast Cancer, Best Friends, and Jogging for Your Life

Josie Lloyd — 2022
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.
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Ellie Mas@ellies_books
5 stars
Nov 30, 2021

Thankful, this book made me feel thankful from start. Thankful for my body, my strength, my peculiar appreciation of life, especially mine. Thankful for having what I have and what I don't have too. This book makes you realize life from the other side of the highway. It slaps you in the face hard once, twice, and many times more, with the only purpose of giving you the chance to realize how good your life is. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Kierra Godfrey@kierragodfrey
4 stars
May 29, 2024
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Abby Kennedy@ak34
3 stars
Aug 12, 2022
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Jana Jenkinns @bookishwiccan
3 stars
May 26, 2022

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