About the Book
PRESS AND REVIEWS
“This story, spoken in the voices of mother Vicki and daughter Karen, illustrates the tragedy of a late diagnosis of ovarian cancer. The reader learns through deeply personal conversations how families struggle to balance catastrophic illness and life, and eventually, death. Its message about awareness of symptoms is undeniable.”
— Annette Leal Mattern
President of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance and
author of Outside the Lines… of Love, Life and Cancer
“Love You So Much is a well-written and moving account of Vicki and Karen’s relationship, and a fitting legacy to a woman who was clearly a wonderful wife and mother.”
— Shelley Antscherl, DutchNews.nl
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“These practical, poignant, personal exchanges offer a real picture of living under the cancer cloud. But they also show how life must go on..."
— Kathy Kastner, Ability4Life.com
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“From her relentless fight to stay alive to her quiet, peaceful end through the care of hospice and her doting family, I felt reassured, less with fear, and no longer afraid of my own death... GO BUY IT! It’s a wonderful book and should be passed along for all to read!"
— Alexandra Wallace Currie, stayabreast.co.uk
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“...a moving, human tale of a woman’s survival under the most difficult of circumstances.”
— The Irish World
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“The reader is drawn into the daily battles and struggles of the Greve family... It’s a book that needs to be read because of the deep emotion captured on every page.”
— Niamh Ni Bhroin, Xpat.nl
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NEWS AND EVENTS
Interviews with Author Karen Greve Young
September 2011 – Find out about the journey the book took, how the collaboration was effected and the steep technological learning curve Karen has experienced in getting the book into print and released to the world.
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August 2011– Karen Greve Young discusses the launch of her book with Jo Parfittt of Summertime Publishing.
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Love You So Much, A Shared Memoir Launches
On what would have been Victoria (“Vicki”) Greve’s 66th birthday, Summertime Publishing launches a unique memoir that captures the correspondence between a mother and her daughter following Vicki’s cancer diagnosis and through some of life’s greatest challenges. Vicki signed letters and email messages to her daughter with her signature, “love you so much.”
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Author Karen Greve Young and her family at the launch party
