Liz was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1956 at the age of eight. During her life, she had to cope with isolation, rejection and a range of illnesses resulting from the side-effects of diabetes. Some 40 years later, this culminated in a life-threatening heart attack followed by a heart transplant.

Despite all this, her philosophy was always to make the most of every day, to meet the many challenges life placed before her, and to seek out adventures around the world.

In this book, she shares some of her experiences to show others facing lifelong debilitating illnesses that life can still be lived to the full.