The Image of Survival

"That word, cancer - and all that it carries with it - is yours now, for as long as you live, however long that may be. I'm but it will be okay in the end, I promise. You will have to take on all the 'fighting/battle/defeat' cliché jargon - because what else can you do? They don't tell you - because how could they know? - that there's much more to surviving than simply surviving. The battle itself is less than half the battle. Keeping the peace afterwards may be much harder." Thoughtful and nature-loving teenager Sophia Darcy survives cancer at age fifteen, relatively unscathed and with her whole life ahead of her to enjoy. But as the years of remission add up, she increasingly struggles to find something to make her life meaningful - 'something impressive' to live up to her own high demands of how a cancer survivor should survive. Her search for meaning takes her across the world to Paraguay and Bolivia, chasing dreams and moths and men with motorbikes, until she finally realises that she has been doing something impressive, all along...