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Sweet Louise Hosts 'Pink Party' Birthday Celebration
and Book Launch 
Sunday November 11 2007
Auckland
Sweet Louise hosted a fabulous Pink Party (with kind support from sponsors Isis Spa, Pink Insurance and Brown Sugar) to celebrate their first birthday and to launch Jane Bissell's latest book 'The Pink Party'.The event was held at the Raye Freedman Arts Centre at Epsom Girls Grammar School on a brilliantly sunny Sunday afternoon. A crowd of over 
100 people enjoyed delicious sweet treats and listened to a series of speakers from Sweet Louise, Isis Spa, BCAC and to Jane.
Sweet Louise (who joined BCAC this year) offers free services and support for those women living with secondary breast cancer in the Auckland area. Backed by The Louise Perkins Foundation, Sweet Louise would like to expand its services within NZ over time and hopes all breast cancer patients can derive some benefit from the strategies and information they provide.
Jane Bissell (pictured below, L to R with Louise Malone, Libby Burgess, Anne Hayden and Liane Peterson)spoke about her book, The Pink Party, and explained why she had written it.
'Colleen Gray came to our breast cancer support group in 2004 
and it was there that she told us her breast cancer had spread. I asked her not long afterwards if I could walk with her on this journey, and she said yes. We talked about including her story in my next book and again, she said yes. At that time, there was no Sweet Louise and Colleen often said how alone she felt – how isolated – and even though she was lovingly surrounded by family and friends, more than anything she wanted to talk to another woman who was in that place too, walking the same road as she was. So she agreed to the book because she wanted to share her experience, hoping her words could reach out to inform, comfort, support and guide others in the same situation. Colleen loved parties and the book takes its name from the Pink Party she held about a year before she passed away – and I am quite sure she would have loved to be here today to meet you all and I hope that you can get to know Colleen through her words in this book.'
Jennifer Clark, Executive Director of Sweet Louise, officially launched Jane's book 
and spoke about the many services Sweet Louise provides including practical household help, counselling and wellbeing therapies and BCAC's Deputy Chair Claire Ryan explained the coalition's activities and progress being made, also delivering a humourous and entertaining talk about Jane, highlighting the author's fondness for chocolate and gin. Jane will donate a percentage of sales from 'The Pink Party' to both Sweet Louise and BCAC.
For more information about Sweet Louise, please visit their website www.sweetlouise.co.nz or freephone on 0800 11 22 76.
To read more about Jane and her books and to order copies, please visit Jane's website www.janebissell.co.nz.
