In Sickness
A Memoir

I'm a little perturbed with Barrett Rollins for writing this book as it is all about his dead wife who would have been horrified had she known he was going to write about her in such excruciating detail. He described her as an instensely private and guarded person. Theirs was a peculiar and insulate......more

This is one of the most difficult books to rate, at least, for me. I was not sure if I wanted to continue reading in the beginning. Rollins described his late wife as a very private person. Yet, he wrote such intimate details of her illness (and her life). I felt Rollins was an Unreliable Narrator.......more

The most disturbing book I have read. Difficult to comprehend. A tragic memoir. This book exposes the complicated minds and relationship of Barrett & his wife Jane. Despite her cancer diagnosis, I could not care for her. Jane was a selfish, narcissistic, manipulative individual & Barrett enabled her......more

Fascinating, gripping page-turner that I couldn't put down. Very well-written memoir by Dr. Barrett Rollins (oncologist) about his 30 year marriage to his wife, Jane, also a cancer specialist. Incredibly, she had breast cancer for 10 years which she inexplicably hid from him! Adamant about never goi......more