A fascinating book about the history of the woman from whom HeLa cells are descended, the lives of her family and the ways in which the two stories have intertwined. I took a long time to get round to reading this, struggling to see how an entire book on the topic could be interesting. However, Skloot does a great job of drawing the characters of each of Lacks' family members and empathising with their position in understanding and gaining identity from their ancestor's unwitting role in modern medicine and human biology. A proper page-turner too!