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Review: Underneath the Sycamore Tree - B. Celeste

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Review: Underneath the Sycamore Tree - B. Celeste - September 2019 This book had been sitting on my bookshelf to read and finally last week, I got around to reading it boy this does pack the emotional punch as part of it is a heartbreaking read as this book contains a lot of angst and a huge amount of grief and the different ways that grief can affect a person. Also, a few ways that having someone with a terminal illness can creep in and take over your life and those around you. I don't normally cry in books, but I did find myself, especially in that last chapter tearing up as some of the book hit home a little too close as the main character Emery is dying and then she starts suffering from kidney failure as her main symptom and she had signs like she had put on a lot of weight but turned out to be water weight from the kidney damage and at the moment, it flashed my mind back a couple of weeks ago when I saw my sister who was diagnosed with renal cancer and it had triggered kidne...