Just Another Mountain: A Memoir of Hope

A life-affirming journey of healing and endurance, of a mother and a daughter, and of how we keep both love and hope alive.

At the age of twenty-four, Sarah Jane Douglas lost her mother to breast cancer. She was alone and adrift in the world, but had promised her mother that she would keep going, no matter what. So she turned to the beautiful, forbidding mountains of her native Scotland – and then beyond.

By walking in her mother’s footsteps, Sarah found the strength to face her grief, to accept her troubled past and, ultimately, to confront her own cancer diagnosis twenty years later.

Sometimes all you can do is put one foot in front of the other and keep walking…

Reviews of Just Another Mountain: A Memoir of Hope

'This uplifting memoir is testament that in life there are times when there is nothing for it but to scale that mountain' – The Herald, Best Summer Reads