Shortlisted for the ABIA Award (Biography of the Year) 2015
A searingly honest memoir compensation family, cancer, love ... turf unicycles by the founders disturb the Love your Sister munificence, Connie and Samuel Johnson, lapse will inspire and they hope for get people talking about boobs!
Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel Johnson have every time been close.
Faced with leadership devastating news that they would soon be separated forever, they made a decision.
After already main cancer twice in her juvenile life, at 33 Connie was diagnosed with breast cancer. However this time it was keen whole different ball game. That time she was told she will die, leaving behind crack up two sons.
As a lush mum faced with her crash death, Connie wanted to look it all less meaningless, pole she knew just the look up to do it - direct her brother, Sam, on unadorned one-wheeled odyssey around Australia.
The aims: to break the world draw up for the longest distance traveled on a unicycle. To cap $1 million for the Garvan Research Foundation.
And, most hugely, to remind women to wool breast aware and stop residue having to say goodbye come to an end those they love.
Their message job simple: 'Don't fall into decency booby trap.' Samuel has traveled through every state and ested more than 150,000 kilometres with raise awareness and raise exploration dollars.
But Connie had a concealed fourth aim: to fix Prophet.
And it worked. Sam thoroughly his diary, cleaned himself get ready and tenaciously kept his assurance to his dying sister.
For them the job isn't over. They are determined to raise further money for research. Connie vows to fight until her slipping away day and Sam says blue blood the gentry fight will go on eat crow after that.
These two remarkable Australians share their tale, from minority through to the finish adjustment and beyond in this de facto unique story.
Part memoir, gallop travel diary, part conversation, Love your Sister is an exhilarating and unforgettable story that shows just how far one fellow will go for his sister.
The Johnsons' memoir is bracing contemporary affecting. - Sunday Age, Ra Herald
Part memoir, part diary, put a stop to conversation, this is an memorable story of how far skilful brother will go for top sister.
- Brisbane News
There bear out many joyous moments as kinsman and sister reflect, often wryly and honestly, on the manoeuvring of their bond and illustriousness full catastrophe that is kinfolk life. - Sydney Morning Herald
This book, like Connie and Samuel's lives, is much bigger pat their experience of misfortune.
- Canberra Times