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There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You
- Author
- Lynda Bellingham
- Narrator
- Sue Holderness
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 23 October 2014
- Run Time
- 7 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Having been told that she only has a matter of months left to live and writing this in what will sadly be her final days, There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You is a brave and brutally honest memoir and yet Lynda also manages to spread her infectious warmth and humour, bringing light to a very dark time. Woven into this very moving and brave story are extraordinary, colourful tales of her acting and family life that will enlighten and entertain as well as the journey that Lynda has taken to find the family of her birth father having already suffered heartache in her search for her birth mother. In the search for her father's family, Lynda finds a family with a history in entertainment showing that acting was always in the blood.
Lynda Bellingham is a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter and this book brings her kind heart, courage and emotion to the page in vivid detail. Lynda's story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too and ultimately the way Lynda tells her life story will serve as a great inspiration.
(P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton
Critics Review
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Her brilliantly titled book, There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You, charts the unravelling of that delusion, and her determination to wrest a meaningful life out of sudden chaos. By turns, it is riotous, deeply serious, practical and sad. Reading it is like being at her kitchen table with a glass of wine to hand. Not just listening to the expletives of pain or the dawning of reality, but rooting for her when the treatment appears to be working, sharing her fears as her life expectation dwindles, and rocking with laughter at the absurdities that go with having the "least sexy" cancer of them all. Her description of the mechanics of dealing with a stoma bag in the ladies' at Buckingham Palace, when she accepted her OBE in March, reads like a comedy script.
Daily Telegraph
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Bellingham has started a necessary conversation where often there is silence. The rest of us look on at these extraordinary people and wonder how we ourselves would manage. I am so grateful that such people are speaking out, now while they can.
Guardian
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I laughed and I cried. The strength shines through in the whole book and the honesty. A fantastic woman.
Coleen Nolan
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Touching and honest...It may be packed with heartfelt emotion, but don't expect to be wiping your eyes every time you turn the page - Lynda's cheeky humour is woven through every chapter. It's the perfect memoir from a much-missed star.
BEST Magazine
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Moving and inspirational. A fitting memorial to an amazing woman.
Daily Express
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Lynda's book is chirpy, positive, magnificently sane and, paradoxically reassuring.
Daily Mail
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The actress bore no bones about sharing some of the most intimate details about her bowel cancer, and did so with admirable honesty.
Independent
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The rawness of their situation is undeniably distressing, but what leaps from the pages is Lynda's stoicism and determination not to let sadness destroy her spirit.
Daily Mail
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Courageous... searingly honest
Mail on Sunday
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A gripping tale of triumph over adversity
Woman's Own
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Very honest
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Details
- Author
- Lynda Bellingham
- Narrator
- Sue Holderness
- Duration
- 7 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 October 2014
- ISBN
- 9781473610422
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: general
Synopsis
In 2013 Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. Having kept the details of her illness private, now for the very first time Lynda talks with beautiful poignancy about her life since her diagnosis, her family and how together they came to terms with a future they hadn't planned. Having been told that she only has a matter of months left to live and writing this in what will sadly be her final days, There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You is a brave and brutally honest memoir and yet Lynda also manages to spread her infectious warmth and humour, bringing light to a very dark time. Woven into this very moving and brave story are extraordinary, colourful tales of her acting and family life that will enlighten and entertain as well as the journey that Lynda has taken to find the family of her birth father having already suffered heartache in her search for her birth mother. In the search for her father's family, Lynda finds a family with a history in entertainment showing that acting was always in the blood.Lynda Bellingham is a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter and this book brings her kind heart, courage and emotion to the page in vivid detail. Lynda's story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too and ultimately the way Lynda tells her life story will serve as a great inspiration.(P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton
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