The Luckiest Unlucky Couple

Name: The Luckiest Unlucky Couple
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Price: 36.99 AUD
Availability: PreOrder

A Medical Love Story

Read by: Katherine Fenton

Author: Alicia C. Shepard

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Format
Digital Audiobook

Duration
07:10.51

Available: 5th February 2026

Digital Audiobook

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Bloomsbury presents The Luckiest Unlucky Couple by Alicia C. Shepard, read by Katherine Fenton.

The story goes something like this: successful journalist and author, Alicia (Lisa), in her late 50s, is single and mostly happy but has given up on finding love again after her first marriage ended abruptly.

Her friends convince her to at least try Match.com, and she finds the love of her life. Then out of the blue, he is diagnosed with melanoma, which has traveled to his brain. Through immunotherapy, he gets cured. And through the process of his illness, she and his children—not especially close before—become a family. That is the first half of the book.

Not long after he is pronounced cured, she is diagnosed with lung cancer. That is the second half of the book, wherein she struggles with cancer, dying, surrendering to support, gets remarried, and ultimately finds deeper love for all things. The book not only details her emotional journey, it also contains a lot of useful information on cutting-edge immunotherapy techniques, and how to live in the moment when that is not your predisposition. The epilogue, written by her husband, shares life after Lisa's passing. In the appendix the couple shares helpful tips for patients and families wrestling with cancer.