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Library Reading Groups Review The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - have your say

At the beginning of the year we helped Macmillan to recruit 50 reading groups from across the country to read and review the award winning The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. The book uncovers the extraordinary story of Henrietta, a poor tobacco farmer whose cancer cells became part of a multimillion dollar industry and one of the most important life saving tools in medicine.

Find out what the library reading groups thought. We also want to hear what you think so please post your views.

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