I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus

<p>Samantha Albert's memoir glitters with joyful love humour and grace beyond measure. It is not just a delight to read it is a literary gift. -<strong>Alison Wearing</strong> bestselling author of Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter</p><p>The last time I thought I was dying I made pickles.</p><p>So opens Samantha Albert's powerful tenderly humorous memoir of a life lived in the shadow of death.</p><p>Like most young couples Sam and her husband had plans and dreams: fulfilling careers a beautiful home a baby or two family camping trips. Everything was going according to plan until a single sentence overturned their world:</p><p>I have your results back.</p><p>Sam's rare life-threatening illness devastated both her body and her plans. Over the ensuing two decades she managed to outlive dire prognoses again and again. But she also became a stunning embodiment of grace who chose to offer kindness in every gesture and exchange. To use her strength to make others laugh. To weave her love into a tapestry of beauty. And to make pickles.</p><p><em>I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus </em>is not a book about illness but rather an answer to the question so many people must face: How do we live the life we have rather than the one we hoped for?</p>