Series ✦ Penny’s Take
Tits Up!
Lifebalance Publishing · 2019
76/100
👍 Worth It
Carole Paterson's decision to keep a daily diary through Triple Negative Breast Cancer — the chemo, the surgery, the radiotherapy, wedding preparations and COVID shielding all at once — and then share it unflinchingly is a genuine act of courage, and the result is one of those memoirs that makes you feel less alone in crisis. The humor is not a performance; it is a survival tool that readers in similar situations will recognize immediately. The blunt title will put off some audiences, and it is firmly an adult read, but for the right reader this is warm, honest, and worth every page.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Title contains crude anatomical slang; content deals candidly with cancer treatment, bodily experience, and mortality — adults only. We still scored it 76; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety72
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing76
Originality74
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers78
Age-fit75
👁 Human-eye gut-check80
Penny’s verdict76
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