Winner, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards - The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award<br/>'A candid, raw and at times, comedic glimpse into a life full of courage and positivity ... [Metcalfe} will help hundreds of people who read Breath.' The Australian<br/>'Metcalfe has a generous, conversational style of storytelling and this, combined with her wicked sense of humour - as often bawdy as it is black - means Breath is never grim or even traumatic ... It is, ultimately, a deeply affirming book, as big of heart as it is gutsy.' The Saturday Paper<br/><br/><b><i>I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room.</i></b><br/><br/><b>Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and faced a rare cancer at the age of thirty. What she has endured should have killed her, but her humour, courage and optimism became her best survival skills.</b><br/><br/><b>From her hospitalised childhood to her many friendships, loves and losses, Carly-Jay shares the fickle nature of life with candour and warmth. She writes with compelling insight about organ donation, opioid addiction and survivor's guilt, while still managing to find joy amongst the wreckage.</b><br/><br/><b><i>Breath</i> is a stunningly frank and darkly funny memoir about living, dying and trying to breathe.</b><br/><br/>