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At the age of 39, unhappily married, unfulfilled and seven stone overweight, Janice Day was diagnosed with breast cancer and recommended for a full mastectomy. In Getting It Off My Chest she recounts, with frankness, charm and humour, how the gruelling experience of illness, of breast surgery and reconstruction, prompted her to examine what was wrong with her life and how to make it better. Along the way, she rejects the unanimous recommendations of her doctors to undergo chemotherapy, separates from her husband, comes to terms with her unhappy childhood, loses seven stone and launches a successful career as a cabaret singer, stand-up comedian and writer. The result is a hilarious and unusual memoir that will inspire and entertain anyone who has ever had to live through difficult times.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This memoir is laugh-out-loud funny whilst at the same time a reminder how devastating cancer can be.
Janice Day has written a refreshingly bright and honest account in a style that's a real page turner. I defy anyone to put it down once they've read the first page!
Not only is it an entertaining read, the book carries several messages. For me, they are to find out ALL you can about your illness and challenge if the treatment offered is right for you. It MIGHT WELL BE but find out first. Secondly, if you are lucky enough to get a second bite at life make changes so that you can live it to the full.
Well done to the author for writing a book that should be on everyone's must-have list for this summer. A joy from cover to cover.
Janice Day has written a refreshingly bright and honest account in a style that's a real page turner. I defy anyone to put it down once they've read the first page!
Not only is it an entertaining read, the book carries several messages. For me, they are to find out ALL you can about your illness and challenge if the treatment offered is right for you. It MIGHT WELL BE but find out first. Secondly, if you are lucky enough to get a second bite at life make changes so that you can live it to the full.
Well done to the author for writing a book that should be on everyone's must-have list for this summer. A joy from cover to cover.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this book and so many times I found myself laughing out loud and reading passages to anyone close to me. Such a brave person truly an inspiration to anyone who has breast cancer - I would really recommend this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This wouldn't normally be my kind of book - at a first glance it looks like it is either going to be chick-lit or mis-lit. But in fact it's a cancer memoir with a difference - as well as candid and emotional it's warm, charming and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny.
Janice is refreshingly honest throughout - the coverage of her childhood and family life gives a real sense of knowing her as she strives to transform her life. The details of diagnoses and treatment options, presented as correspondence from her actual medical records, are quite fascinating, and the investigation of alternative therapies never veers into New Age dogma.
It's a wonderful read, the icing on the cake being that Janice brings real humour to her situation, however grim.
Highly recommended.
Janice is refreshingly honest throughout - the coverage of her childhood and family life gives a real sense of knowing her as she strives to transform her life. The details of diagnoses and treatment options, presented as correspondence from her actual medical records, are quite fascinating, and the investigation of alternative therapies never veers into New Age dogma.
It's a wonderful read, the icing on the cake being that Janice brings real humour to her situation, however grim.
Highly recommended.
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Readable, informative and funny.
This is a really good book. It is well written and Janice skillfully blends past and present to create a narrative which is unputdownable. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Laura Bonthron
life affirming book
This book has been completely inspirational to me.
This is such a life affirming book. I've had cancer and can relate to it because of that, but even if I hadn't had... Read more
This is such a life affirming book. I've had cancer and can relate to it because of that, but even if I hadn't had... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Karen
Something Totally Different
This brave woman lets us laugh and cry with her throughout her long, sometimes very hard experience. Read more
Published 22 months ago by nancy
Funny, fascinating - I loved it!
I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this book and wouldn't normally plough through books on recovery from breast cancer just for the hell of it. Read more
Published on 17 April 2010 by Skippy
Laugh and cry over one book
Once you start reading this book, you have to finish it. It will make you laugh, it will make you weep and it will make you wonder at the courage of Janice Day in the way she... Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2010 by Book reader
fantastc read
I loved this book,it made me laugh oftern ,I have great admiration in the way it was written with such honesty..Highly reccomended .
Published on 18 Jan 2010 by Angela Thomas
Laughed and cried reading this inspirational journey
What a truly fantastic and inspirational book. Much of Janice's story mirrored my journey and I found myself laughing and crying at different points. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2010 by A. Wallace
A funny book about cancer.
This is, indeed, a very funny, often hilarious, often deeply moving book about cancer.
I don't like thinking about cancer. Read more
I don't like thinking about cancer. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2009 by Tanya Davis
A brilliant read
This book was recomended to me by someone who knows a good book when he sees one. I read it in one sitting and that doesn't happen very often. What a fantastic read! Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2009 by C. Ferguson
Excellent
I have recommended this book to so many people. There aren't many books that I'll bother to read more than once - I've read this three times and dipped in and out of it on numerous... Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2009 by R. J. Hitchmough
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