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An Awe-inspiring Memoir - karenfollowingthewhispers.blogspot.com
Just finished reading one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring memoirs I've ever read: "Sixtyfive Roses: a sister's memoir, by Heather Summerhayes Cariou. Heather's sister, Pammy, was born with Cystic Fibrosis, an incurable disease. She couldn't pronounce it properly--she would say she had "sixtyfive roses."
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curledup.com
Heather Summerhayes Cariou pens a beautiful tribute of sibling love in Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir. Heather was six years old when her sister, Pam, was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis and prognosis presented one month to live. “Sixtyfive Roses” was the way Pam pronounced the disease. This heart-wrenching story filled with laughter, tenderness, unconditional love, guilt, and tremendous hopeful account of the will to live, despite probability, is the type of read you can’t put down - it touches the core of your heart and is authored with intense love.
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rebeccasreads.com
Reviewed by LuAnn Morgan
April 8,, 2008
Pam Summerhayes was four-years-old when she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF). She had health problems since shortly after birth, but in the 1950s testing was ambiguous and it wasn’t the norm to suspect a devastating illness in one so young. The focus was more on polio than CF.
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BookingMama.com
Julie Peterson
This beautifully written memoir offers a compassionate yet unflinching eyewitness account of the hope, pain, and courage of a family in crisis as it falls apart and puts itself together again and again, to emerge stronger and more loving.
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Story Circle Book Reviews
Reviewed by Linda Wisniewski
Posted on 12/13/2007
How do I describe a book about a lovely young woman who dies? Life-affirming, inspiring, courageous, heart-wrenching, joyful.
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Hudson Reporter - Hoboken, NJ,USA
'Sixtyfive Roses': A tribute to her sister Guttenberg resident ...
She couldn't even say the name of the disease, telling everyone instead that she had "sixty-five roses." Pam Summerhayes battled CF for 22 years. ...
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DeweyMonster.com
Sixtyfive Roses by Heather Summerhayes Cariou
Sixtyfive Roses is a memoir about a family that lived with and loved a girl, Pam, who had cystic fibrosis. The author is Pam’s sister. When Pam was dying, she asked her sister to write their story — to write about their lives together, ...
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From LIZ SMITH - NEW YORK POST (March 2nd)
IT'S IRRESISTIBLE when a famous guy calls up to tout something his lady love is doing. As when the great Len Cariou, the original Demon Barber of Fleet Street and "Sweeney Todd" on B'way, rang me to ask me to take a look at his wife's new book.

Heather Summerhayes Cariou has written a beautiful memoir about her sister, Pam, who struggled with cystic fibrosis. At 6, young Heather called this devastating disease "Sixtyfive Roses." And that's the title of her book. This is a wonderful work of sibling love and loss. And I like Heather's "press agent" almost as much as she does.

Len will be seen as FDR this summer when HBO shows us "Churchill at War."

Bella Online - The Voice Of Women
Sixtyfive Roses : A Sister’s Memoir
Nina Guilbeau
BellaOnline's Siblings Editor
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Dot Com Women
Book Review: Sixty Five Roses - A Sister's Memoir by Heather Summerhayes Cariou
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Long Island Press
Heather Summerhayes Cariou's Sixtyfive Roses
A Sister’s Memoir is a heartbreaking tale of family, illness and survival
By Annie Blachley
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Memoir Review
By Heather Froeschl(Heather Froeschl)
Heather Summerhayes Cariou’s memoir, “Sixtyfive Roses” demonstrates the bond of sisterhood in a way that readers will never forget. When your sibling, your best friend, is given months to survive, and you vow to die along with her, ...
Book Review Journal

Staff Pick (Connie) at Village Bookstore
Pacific Palisades, CA
Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister's Memoir by Heather Summerhayes Cariou is one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read. Every page holds your interest and leaves you wanting to never stop reading. This book also reads smoothly like a novel, as you care about the characters and the story is fascinating from beginning to end. Heather write so lovingly of her sister Pam, who suffers from cystic fibrosis--together they and the entire family struggle and learn and fight and love and live and laugh and triumph in so many ways. What a journey. You will be happy to have gone with them.

BookLoons.com
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Reviewed by Lori Waddington
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Ally’s Allies
Sixtyfive Roses ~ The Book: A Sister’s Memoir
By allysallies
For those not in the “know” ~ “sixtyfive roses” is often what little kids call their disease when they find “cystic fibrosis” too cumbersome to pronounce. The term was coined by the Foundation and has been used for decades.
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About.com Guide to Women's Issues
Linda Lowen
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Story Circle Book Reviews
Reviewed by Linda Wisniewski
Posted on 12/13/2007
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About.com: Parenting Special Needs
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Gail's Book Odyssey: Sixtyfive Roses
For the first time, I'm going to quote from the Globe and Mail list because they have it exactly right: Sixtyfive Roses is a love letter, a thank-you note, ...
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WEB NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BABY BOOMER WOMEN (USA)
Heather Summerhayes Cariou
Reviewed by Georgia Richardson
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The University of Manitoba
Sixty Five Roses by Heather Summerhayes Cariou
Review by J. Lynn Frase
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www.womencandoanything.com
Sixty Five Roses by Heather Summerhayes Cariou
Written by Noreen Aussem
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Book Review: Globe & Mail; Nov. 18, 2006:
MEMOIR “Sisters of mercy: when siblings die”
PAULA TODD
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The Guardian
New book tells the story of family’s life with cystic fibrosis
Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir will help to raise funds for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
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The London Free Press
REVIEW: A sister's painful story
Nancy Schiefer
January 27, 2007
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