The witty but compelling story of one man's view of his cancer and its treatment which became an instant bestseller on its publication.
Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck. Mailbag followed Diamond's story of life with, and without, a lump - the humiliations, the ridiculous bits, the funny bits, the tearful bits.
The witty but compelling story of one man's view of his cancer and its treatment which became an instant bestseller on its publication.Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck. Having been assured for the previous 2 years that this was a benign cyst, Diamond was told that it was, in fact, cancerous. Suddenly, this man who'd until this point been one of the world's greatest hypochondriacs, was genuinely faced with mortality. And what he saw scared the wits out of him. Out of necessity, he wrote about his feelings in his TIMES column and the response was staggering. Mailbag followed Diamond's story of life with, and without, a lump - the humiliations, the ridiculous bits, the funny bits, the tearful bits. It's compelling, profound, witty, in the mould of THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY.
Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 1999
John Diamond died on March 1st 2001. He was one of Britain's most prolific journalists, columnists and broadcasters, having worked for most of the national papers and presented numerous radio and television series. He was married to Nigella Lawson, with whom he had two children.
Part journal, part medical enquiry, this bestselling book is the everyday story of cancer: of what cancer is, what it does, how it kills, how it can be cured. It is the book Diamond needed the night he was phoned up and told, 'Look it's bad news...'
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