"I'm sorry to say you have breast cancer – an Infiltrating Lobular Carcinoma to be exact," said her doctor delivering the tough news right before Christmas 2013. "And there's three ways we deal with breast cancer – cut, poison and burn."

Such was the start of Jennifer McDonald's 'Big Breast Adventure', the name she gave to a series of blogs penned while going through two years of treatment. My Big Breast Adventure or how I found the Dalai Lama in my letterbox is a compilation of these posts, hailed as a must read for anyone facing a life or health crisis and those who care for them.