"An intensely powerful and moving memoir about genetics, mortality, family, femininity, and the author's battle with cancer

"After the grief of losing her mother to cancer when Sarah Gabriel was a teenager, she had learned to appreciate "the charms of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist, a home in Oxford, England, a husband, and two young daughters, she was content. But then at age forty-four, she was diagnosed with breast cancer--the result of M18T, an inherited mutation on the "BRCA1 "gene that had taken the lives of her mother and countless female ancestors. "Eating...