The Lucky One: A Story of Courage, Hope and Bright Pink Lipstick

✍ Scribed by Barter, Krystal

• Book ID: 107897073
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781743434833

✦ Synopsis

'I feel lucky I was born with cancer in my DNA. Crazy as it sounds, I consider myself lucky that, when I was just twenty-two years old, I discovered I had a ninety per cent chance of developing breast cancer: the same, insidious disease that had attacked my Mum, and my Nan before her and my Great-Grandma before her.'

Krystal Barter is an extraordinary young woman: a fighter, a survivor, a wife, a mother and a crusader. She was born with the breast cancer gene, a hereditary curse that has run through generation after generation in her family, claiming at least twenty of her close relatives. But unlike them, Krystal was able to take the BRCA1 gene test, and found out the devastating news that she too was carrying the rogue gene. She had the courage to face her greatest fear, knowing that she could control and change her destiny - and even more courageously, she did.

At the age of 25, with her husband and two children beside her, she decided to have a double mastectomy - on... ϡ쯦랠