Write a detailed comment on Cancer.
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Write a detailed comment on Cancer It may seem a little odd to have chosen Ruth Picardie's book, "Before I Say Goodbye", for holiday reading, and I have to admit I had to hide in the hand luggage before my husband saw me buying it at Stansted Airport. He doesn't like me reading about cancer, you see. And even I might have felt it a little voyeuristic had it not been for the fact that I, too, am a member of the Big C Club. Ruth Picardie was a journalist who was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the birth of her adored twins, when she was in her early 30s. She chronicled her condition in a column in The Observer, and these pieces are reproduced in this book, as is her most intimate correspondence, mostly by email, with her friends. As I could so easily have been...

