AWARD-WINNING BOOK
AWARD-WINNING BOOK
THE 2022 NEXT GENERATION
INDIE BOOK AWARD
Grand Prize Winner for non-fiction
Winner of the Mind, Body, and Spirit category
Finalist for the Motivational book category
About The Naked Truth About Breast Cancer
Jane was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020, and did 2 surgeries, chemo, and radio, whilst living alone, just as Melbourne went into the world’s longest lockdown. She documented everything, to make sense of things for herself, and in the end her diary, her photos, and her writings became this book.
The book went on to win the largest book competition for indie writers in the world - a huge accoldade for a self-published author.
The book is radically different from most other books about breast cancer:
2 years of her completely unfiltered diary and photos, nothing is held back: done this way to validate your own experience
Practical advice on a range of topics: work, relationships with others, managing your fear
A framework that takes into account the huge emotional & spiritual rollercoaster you find yourself on: I promise you this will completely change your relationship to the cancer and your ability to not just cope with it, but to allow yourself to be transformed by it
The book is is a must-read for anyone who wants an empowering perspective on breast cancer, whether you’re having treatment, in recovery, or caring for someone.
How to Buy the Book/E-Book
There are lots of stockists of TNTABC - and with Amazon you can buy anywhere in the world.
Click on the links below to go direct to some of the most popular places to buy online.
Or if you live in Australia, pop into your local bookstore and ask them to order.
Free Sample
Download the first chapter of the book, for free if you’d like to see if it’s for you, before you buy.
Not to go overboard or anything, but it’s a work of art. Think Tom Ford coffee-table book meets deeply personal scrapbook. It’s full colour, with a glossy jacket and gorgeous photos. I wanted the woman with breast cancer to have something beautiful in her hands, in the midst of a process that is often brutal and ugly.
Reviews
The feedback I get from women who have breast cancer is often overwhelming, and usually makes me cry. What I hear is things like “it’s as if you were in my head” which is how I know I’ve captured the experience in just the right way. Time and again I hear from women “thank you for telling your story”. What they mean is “thank you for telling my story”. This story is our collective story.
More reviews here
“Your documentation of your chemo journey definitely resonated with me, giving me an emotional and deep response I wasn’t expecting. My tears were uncontrollable. Reading your story made me feel like I wasn’t alone.”
“OH MY GOD! T H A N K Y O U 🙏 Received the book yesterday. Sat with it tonight and could not put it down…. What an incredible journey. So much the same So much different I get it. All of it. It was like you were reading my mind. Power to you! 💝🌸
“Your book gave me comfort and took away my hopeless negativity. It gave me hope and direction. It allowed my mind to heal and to see progression. Your journey has helped my journey, and your words gave me a boost of power.”
About the author: Jane Marshall
Hey, I’m Jane, I’m 53, from London, currently based in Melbourne, back in London soon…. I have two dogs, Maggie and Morgaine who feature heavily in the book. I’m a management consultant in innovation, customer experience, and human-centred design in my work life. And before cancer my passion/obsession was masters powerlifting - I have a bunch of Australian records.
I’d love to hear from you, so please get in touch.
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WHY I WROTE THE BOOK
TO HELP YOU MANAGE THE FEAR THAT COMES FROM NOT-KNOWING
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing - I’d never seen breast cancer up close - and so I had to make it up as I went along. The not-knowing-what-I-was- doing triggered a huge amount of fear, because I was suddenly thrown into a world I didn’t understand and having to make huge decisions with little to no knowledge. Then I realised that Breast Cancer affects 1 in 7 women and that there must be lots of other women like me who have no idea what they’re doing either - you get your diagnosis and find yourself bounced straight into treatment whilst dealing with a huge range of emotions.
TO PUT YOU IN CONTROL OF THE MASSIVE EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL ROLLERCOASTER
The medical system treats breast cancer as a medical problem to be solved, and often forgets about the woman in the centre of it all. Many women say their sense of identity changes dramatically and their life is never the same again. There is often anxiety, depression, huge grief, loss, long-term pain or issues with our bodies, marriages break-up, we lose friends. The book talks directly about these massive life changes and offers an approach to coming at them that is radically empowering and comforting. It shows you that in spite of the horrors of breast cancer there is light - we get a fast-track to knowing what matters and what doesn’t.
FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS
I wanted to make something that was useful for friends and family members - who often have a hard time supporting their loved ones because they have no idea what they’re supposed to be doing to help. Until you’ve experienced something like cancer yourself it’s incredibly hard to understand what someone else is going through.
THIS IS A BOOK FROM MY HEART TO YOURS
I can’t count the number of hours that went into the book, but it was all worth it. I wanted to offer some comfort to women who are feeling the grief, the anxiety, the fear, and the loneliness. The book opens with the words “This is a book from my heart to yours” and I mean it. In reading the book I want you to know you’re not alone, and that if you’re finding it hard you’re in very good company. You’re not doing anything wrong, breast cancer is just really really hard. Love is what gets us through, love is all we have. In the words of the mighty Teresa of Avila (my favourite mystic) “it is love alone that gives worth to all things”.
