Crossed Signals chronicles a family torn apart by a devastating diagnosis and reawakened by the experience.

After living with multiple sclerosis since 1992, Montrealer Caroline Courey has written an insightful novel about sickness in the family.

The 40-year old mother of four says, "My illness didn't just affect me. After I'd absorbed the initial shock of my own condition, I started to see the toll it was taking on my family. They went through a storm of emotions-anxiety, anger, guilt, rejection...it was disastrous. Only after a lot of soul-searching and with the support of others did we finally regain our balance. It's really not easy and it certainly doesn't happen by itself. In fact, some families don't even make it."

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