Songlines: A Novel

Final-year university students Jonah and Ellen face life-threatening illness together—and discover love. As their love deepens, they embrace intimacy and creativity, courage and honesty, joy and pride.

A compelling reminder that—along the songlines of the cancer journey—when the patient is held at the centrepoint of care, and when professional and personal caregivers work as partners with profound skill and compassion, a beautiful story unfolds. Songlines is that story.

This is emeritus professor of pediatric oncology and palliative care John Graham-Pole’s third novel in his trilogy inspired by young people with cancer. It evokes an abundance of compassion, know-how, humour, and hope.

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Book: Songlines
Author: John Graham-Pole
Publisher:HARP

Songlines follows two university students named Ellen and Jonah who when Jonah gets sick, they experience the love, caring and what life gives you when you least expect it. This book is for fans of The Fault In Our Stars and Everything Everything!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I liked how it connected music and hospitals as music is a great therapy for anyone. It is important to patients to feel connected to their world. I liked how I was able to connect to all of the characters but especially Jonah! I connected with him the most because I think that I liked how even when Jonah was sick, his friends still treated him like a “normal” person.

My favourite part of this book was when Jonah and Ellen got married. I liked this part because sickness should not stop anyone.

Overall, I loved reading this book, while at times it was a hard book to read, it was an important read.
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I recommend this book.