The Journey of Leaves
by Ian Boyd
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Pub Date 31 May 2025 | Archive Date 27 May 2025
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Description
Eager for the long-awaited freedoms of midlife, Liam and Amelia King’s world is shattered when Liam is diagnosed with aggressive, incurable prostate cancer, the same disease which killed his father. Together, they discover the realities of modern treatments under the cloud of Liam’s possible death, his loss of sexual function, and his daily challenges as a chemo patient.
When Liam and Aimz inform their closest friends of his diagnosis, they are shocked by their lack of empathy and understanding. Conflict ensues when Aimz is forced to postpone a baking event she conceptualised and fought to develop, only to have her closest friends seize control, backed by a large council funding grant linked to corrupt kickbacks.
While Aimz fights to hold onto her career dreams, Liam makes the decision to distract himself from the fear of death by reinventing himself as a children’s author. Fighting with and against each other, they must rediscover love, learn to embrace change, and cherish each moment of life as they follow its unpredictable winds, like the journey of leaves.
The Journey of Leaves is a fictional story based upon the real-life experiences of Ian Boyd and his family over the first six months after his diagnosis of advanced metastatic prostate cancer.
Advance Praise
Sharing this journey has opened up my eyes, from the way you describe the diagnosis, the emotions and the physical impact it had on Liam’s body to how it affected the relationship with those closest to him. It had me in tears in parts, especially when you explained how Liam was diagnosed and how he and Aimz navigated this journey whilst dealing with so many emotions, whilst all the time trying to be strong for the family.
The so called friendship group made me mad, and ending of it was a blessing to be honest. Sometimes we move on and grow from friends in different directions but frankly they treated Liam and Aimz very badly. Onwards and upwards as they say, the best revenge you can have is to move on with a positive outlook and embrace it all, which you both do everyday.
It’s a story of strength and a strong family united which shows they can get through anything together.
Becky Lucas- Shakespeare's Bookshop
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9798227106773 |
| PRICE | A$21.99 (AUD) |
| PAGES | 190 |
Links
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Featured Reviews
Kate T, Reviewer
seeing this was based on the realities of Ian's own journey with the diagnosis made total sense to me. because reading it felt so vividly real. it was horrid and hard. but it was hopeful and funny. it was tears jerking in all the right and worst of ways. and it was just such a privilege to be able to learn from a window into his own world.
to be honest i wanted his friendship group to be fiction. because erm what the!??? how horrid. and if this illness has taught Ian anything i hope its to make some new and better and actually more deserving of him friends.
im just thankful and in awe that Ian is still here because its a diagnosis that you think of being as death is imminent.
i think no matter the story it brave to put your own pieces of your story in there. and around illness it can be o helpful because it really does hit home all the more from having some personal insight into what the author is so emotionally writing of. and i think as a reader even in fiction you can hear if the author "knows" the subject.
