The Woman with the Story of Cancer

Picture from The Sentinel

The feeling to educate the world invoked her memoir book There’s Something I’ve Been Dying To Tell You. Of course, the title brings you into a state of motivation. You can hardly gaze away without trying to find out what it is all about. Actually, it is the true life story of Lynda Bellingham who was diagnosed with cancer.
Unarguably, there are numerous stories of diagnosed cancer in the world. But the story of Lynda Bellingham is so relevant, motivated, informative, educative and rarely.

In 2013 Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. Sadly enough, she kept the details of her illness private. But the feeling to educate the world and the value of honesty extremely instigated her to write the story of her life since she was diagnosed, her family and how together they came to terms with a future they hadn’t planned. And how did Lynda become an intellectual writer at this time? It is in the fact that she stood up in literary term to spread her infectious warmth and humor bringing light to a very dark time.

According to her publisher, Lynda is described as, ‘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.’
Of course it is a great inspiration to read the story of Lynda. The Daily Telegraph described her as , ‘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 scrip.’

Biographical Notes
Lynda has enjoyed a career spanning forty five years. Her roles have covered drama as Helen Herriott in All Creatures Great and Small and comedy in her own series Faith in the Future, which won Best Comedy in 1998. She also managed to give us a twirl in Strictly Come Dancing and plenty of lip as a Loose Woman for six years. She created the role of Chris in the stage version of Calendar Girls and after a successful run in the West End went on to spend four years playing to full houses in a nationwide tour and she is still loved and remembered as the long-suffering mum in the OXO commercials. Lynda has previously written Lost and Found which was a Sunday Times bestseller and she has enjoyed bestselling success with her fiction writing too.Her real life family brings her great joy and she lives in north London with her youngest son, Robert, and her stepson Bradley, while her eldest son Michael lives just round the corner. She finally found true happiness with her husband Michael Pattemore and they were married in 2008 on her sixtieth birthday.

David Isoje