Every third person

Yep, that’s the statistic: Before they're done, one in three people will develop cancer. When a much-loved uncle was diagnosed with the disease, teenager Karin Peters could not help wondering: what if it caught me when I’m still young? Her need to think that one through became this novel with ifs young heroine Vada.

Karin Peters is able to write for a teenage audience without sounding self-conscious. Adult figures play a fairly minor role as she talks the talk of teenage emotions, the paramount importance of friends and faith, the blossoming of romance.