Emotional journey through terminal illness

THAT Heather Morris is passionate about stories of survival, resilience and hope is obvious if you have read any of her first four historical fiction novels, The Tattooist of Auschwitz perhaps being her most famous and at times controversial.

- Heather Morris

Her new novel, The Wish is however, completely contemporary bringing once again the three qualities she holds dear.

Before becoming a bestselling author, Morris spent some 20 years in the social work department of a large metropolitan his hospital. What she experienced there, moved her deeply: courage, fortitude, trauma, chronic illness and, of course, cancer.

This is the subject she has chosen ~— a teenager with terminal cancer. Patients and families that she came to know intimately over many months and years. A difficult subject to tackle. One that no parent wants to face. And then there is hope.

And this is Morris's skill, showing the reactions of a family in crisis. A journey that they all have to take.