The Valley of Cancer: a Journey of Comfort and Hope

Reviewer's Bookwatch, March, 2005 by Dian Moore

Q. What are you working on now?

AFV: I'm very excited about my new book, Seven Angels for Seven Days, scheduled to be released in late spring of this year. It won the "Best New Canadian Author" award. The publisher is Castle Quay Books (connected with Augsburg Fortress Publishers.) The book tells another personal "saga." An exciting journey into the Australian outback desert takes a drastic turn and catapults me into a desert of a different kind. Strangers come to minister to me, as I envision angels would.

Q. Finally--say anything you like--a blurb about your upcoming book; a plug for cancer awareness; the page is open for you.

AFV: Today as I watched Oprah, [Feb. 10, 2005] two cancer patients received a wedding shower and a trip to Australia. It touched me so that with tears in my eyes I proclaimed to my husband that a new charity needs to be founded: "Make an Adult Smile!"

We can all do something on a smaller scale: give a coupon for a facial, a massage, a dinner out, a weekend away, an offer to baby sit, clean the house, etc. etc. etc.

I just received a phone call. Another friend, a beautiful husband and father, just heard the devastating news--colon cancer gone to the liver and lungs. So very sad. Especially so because a colonoscopy in time may have prevented it all!

Thank you for sharing this story with the world. I believe every cancer patient should have a copy.

Dian Moore, Reviewer

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