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How to Live When You Could Be Dead Hardcover – 18 Aug. 2022
Deborah James (Author) See search results for this author |
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'Deborah James has captured the heart of the nation' - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal
'Brave, bright, beautiful' - Lorraine Kelly
'Deborah's ability to find positivity in the darkest of places is an inspiration to us all' - Davina McCall
I was alive when I should have been dead. In another movie, I missed the sliding door and departed this wondrous life long ago. Like so many others, I had to learn to live not knowing if I have a tomorrow, because, statistically, I didn't. At the age of 35, I was blindsided by incurable bowel cancer - I was given less than an 8 per cent chance of surviving five years. Five years later, my only option was to live in the now and to value one day at a time.
How do you turn your mind from a negative spiral into realistic and rebellious hope? How do you stop focusing on the why and realise that 'why not me' is just as valid a question?
When Deborah James was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer at just 35, she learned a powerful lesson: the way we respond to any given situation empowers or destroys us. And with the right skills and approach, we can all face huge challenges and find strength and hope in the darkest of places.
How to Live When You Could Be Dead will show you how. It will awaken you to question your life as if you didn't have a tomorrow and live it in the way you want to today. By harnessing the power of positivity and valuing each day as though it could be your last, you'll find out, as Deborah did, that it is possible to live with joy and purpose, no matter what.
Ebury, a division of Penguin Random House, will pay £3 from the sale of each copy of How To Live When You Could Be Dead by Deborah James sold in the UK to Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK.
Cancer Research UK is a charity registered in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666), Isle of Man (1103) and Jersey (247).
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVermilion
- Publication date18 Aug. 2022
- Dimensions14.5 x 2.3 x 22.4 cm
- ISBN-101785043595
- ISBN-13978-1785043598
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- Publisher : Vermilion (18 Aug. 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1785043595
- ISBN-13 : 978-1785043598
- Dimensions : 14.5 x 2.3 x 22.4 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 59 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1 in Mind-Body Medicine
- 1 in Popular Medicine
- 1 in Art Relaxation & Therapy
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