How do you go on after making a life-altering discovery about yourself?Sophie St. John’s grandmother, a world-renowned writer, may be as talented as she is rude, but Sophie is just Sophie: clumsy, emotional, and prone to outbursts.When she stars in a class play based on her grandmother’s famous novel and then comes across an old legal case while doing research for homework, Sophie uncovers a profound, devastating, life-changing secret — a secret her parents have kept from her since birth.Faced with a revelation that changes her entire future, Sophie must confront her dysfunctional family, ponder her life goals, and summon the courage to finally start living on her own terms.- A young girl discovers what life really means after finding out she has an incurable disease. – Gives insight into living with illness, disability, and confronting one’s mortality at a young age. – LifeExpectancy fits into a growing canon of books about disabled and neurodiverse characters, few of which currently deal with Juvenile Huntington’s Disease (which the main character has), and what confronting a reduced life expectancy might look like for a young person.- Author has published nineteen books for young adults and children, and was once nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Young People’s Literature for a previous YA novel.- When the author was in law school, she studied “wrongful birth” tort cases which stayed with her and made her wonder how those children would feel reading their case, as Sophie does in the book.