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 Before I Say Goodbye - Ruth Picardie
 Before I Say Goodbye - Ruth Picardie ... breast cancer in September 1997, leaving a young husband and two-year-old twins, 1000s mourned who'd never met her. Ruth's column in The Observer recorded the progress of her illness and her feelings about living with terminal cancer. This text brings together these pieces, Ruth's e-mail correspondance with friends, selected letters from readers, and accounts of Ruth's last days by her sister, Justine, and husband Matt.Newest Review: ... sent by Observer readers who were moved by her writing. Added to this were a foreword by her sister and an account of her ... more ... last days by her husband, Matt Seaton, and the book of 'Before I Say Goodbye' was created. I read a couple of the columns, and warmed to her firey determinat
ion to hang onto life even when the prognosis was so bleak, to laugh in the face of death even when the thought of letting go of her twin son and daughter was breaking her heart. One minute she rails against the NHS whose incompetence had led to her cancer going undiagnosed...more |
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Before I Say Goodbye - Ruth Picardie: Life, Love, Death and other 'Big Things' (1175 words)
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Reading all the 'My Favourite Things' ops to celebrate Jill's 4 years of being cancer-free got me thinking about life, love, death and all those 'big things', and I was drawn back to one of the most-thumbed books on my shelf, 'Before I Say Goodbye' by Ruth Picardie. I was stunned to discover that no-one had written an op on this, so thought I had better get to work, as it is a book I have cried over, laughed over, and returned to on many occasions when I need a little reminder that life and love are fragile, precious things, to be cherished always. Ruth Picardie was a journalist, wife and mother of twins, and was diagnosed with breast ... Read the complete review
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