Read through A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Very short read - maybe two hours long - and quite good. It's the sort of novel I'd make my children read, if I ever had children.Then, once they were done, I would tell them solemnly that I had cancer.
It's a cancer novel, about a thirteen year old boy dealing (and not dealing) with the impending death of his mother. It's about the inexorability of it - the grief, the loss - and honesty associated with being true to the feelings you have about it, which isn't all going to be saintly stuff. For people who've ever felt this sort of grief, the trapped, doomed feeling of it, it might resonate a bit. For me it did.
Thanks for posting this. Just finished it yesterday and wow. I knew exactly how the kid was feeling since I went through the same scenario 4 years ago. Really good book and it perfectly described alot of things I went through.