THE BOOK
It doesn’t take a lot to ruin a person’s life. You can be the happiest human being on Earth, and it’ll take just a single moment to make all the happy moments fade away. For Tris, it was a single word.
Leukaemia.
With her hand squeezed into her husband’s, she listened to the doctor narrate the treatment plans and possible cures for the illness.
‘Four per cent.’ The doctor and her husband turned to look at her.
‘Excuse me?’ the doctor said, adjusting his glasses.
She looked up from her husband to her doctor and then repeated herself. ‘Four per cent. That’s the possibility of surviving cancer in general, but for leukaemia specifically, it’s just 2 per cent.