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We learn that the story follows the protagonist Hazel Grace. She has thyroid cancer that spread to her lungs and she attends a cancer support group. While there, she meets a boy called Augustus Waters who lost his right leg due to osteosarcoma. Hazel and Augustus agree to read each other’s favourite novels. Hazel’s choice, ‘The Prince of Dawn’, ends abruptly and they contact the author, Peter van Houten.