Book description
'Carrie Bradshaw fell in Dior, I fell in Debenhams. It was May 2008,
and it was spectacular. Uncomfortable heels + slippy floor + head
turned by a cocktail dress = thwack. Arms stretched overhead,
teeth cracking on floor tiles, chest and knees breaking the fall. It
was theatrical, exaggerated, a perfect 6. 0. And it was Significant
Moment #1 in discovering that I had grade-three breast cancer.'
The last thing Lisa Lynch had expected to put on her 'things to do
before you're 30' list was beating breast cancer, but them's the
breaks. So with her life on hold, and her mind close to capacity with
unspoken fears, questions and emotions, she turned to her Mac and
started blogging about the frustrating, life-altering, sheer
pain-in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at the age of 28.
The C-Word is an unflinchingly honest and darkly humorous
account of Lisa's battle with The Bullshit, as she came to call it.
From the good days when she could almost pretend it wasn't happening,
to the bad days, when she couldn't bear to wake up, Lisa's story is
emotional, heartbreaking and often hilarious. The C-Word will
make you laugh and cry, and ultimately reaffirm your faith in life.
Lisa Lynch was a journalist and magazine editor. At the age of 28,
while editing her second interiors title, Lisa discovered a lump in
her breast - a lump that spawned not just cancer, but a blog (www.
alrighttit. com), this book and a writing career. Lisa died in 2013.
Follow the blog at www. alrighttit. com
www. lisalynch. co. uk
