NAKED IMPERFECTION

What if you're doing everything right— living a healthy, virtuous, conscientious life— and something goes terribly wrong?

Gill Deacon was the paragon of virtue, the standard-bearer for how to live responsibly on the earth. So when the all-natural, vegetarian, yoga-practicing, marathon-running, mother of three young boys was diagnosed with breast cancer, the world stopped making sense. In an increasingly perilous environment, the promise of order amidst the chaos is so tantalizing. Every busy woman will recognize themselves in Gill's striving—if we just get through our to-do list of achievements and improvements, we can get our lives under control can't we? The illusion of perfection is a powerful motivator, propelling so many of us on a breakneck pace toward somewhere other than where we are right now. But as only a brush with death can teach us, Gill learns the folly of believing we are in control. Readers will be inspired to appreciate the ragged imperfection of right now and learn to find glimpses of gratitude in every moment of any day. GILLIAN DEACON is the author of two national bestsellers. There's Lead in Your Lipstick: Toxins in Our Everyday Bodycare and How to Avoid Them was an Amazon Top 100 book and an Independent Booksellers #1 ranked seller; Green For Life spawned a series on the lecture circuit and a national magazine column of the same name. Gill is a popular radio and television personality, having hosted her own shows for over a decade before turning to writing. Gill has a popular following on Twitter and Facebook both as @gilldeacon and @leadinlipstick