Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

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My second thank you to Kris is for the resilience, in reading this book I have realised that I’ve never known such a hardship - it has both humbled me and given me such a respect for you and the many others that have felt such struggle. Exklusive Mitglieds-Angebote und Sonderrabatte, die du jederzeit auf beliebige Titel anwenden kannst.

multiple brain lesions - 57 in total throughout the year, treated with targeted gamma knife radiotherapy (I was completely asymptomatic). Glittering a Turd is more than just another cancer memoir; it’s a handbook for living life to the fullest, shining a new perspective on survival and learning to 'glitter your own turd', whatever it might be. Naturally when Kris published a book, “Glittering A Turd”, I bought it, and would have been glad to read whatever she fancied writing in it! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Her outlook on life and cancer is probably familiar to everyone who feels like we're winging it day by day.

Diagnosed at 23 - and isn’t that the ‘turd’ of the title - after a series of terrible missed opportunities/ mis-diagnoses which meant that her eventual diagnosis had a ‘terminal’ label.But I didn’t realise how thoroughly thought-provoking and philosophical it would be nor how much it would make me question my own mortality, my prejudices and my outlook on life! patron, all round person from the TV or radio you can see yourself talking a walk with, Dermot O’Leary knows he leads a fortunate life and is very grateful for it.

From founding a charity to visiting Downing Street, campaigning at festivals to appearing on TV, and being present at the birth of her nephew; in the face of all the possible prognoses, Kris is surviving, thriving and resolutely living. Kris’s writing is frank and funny, the lightness of her tone in stark contrast with the graveness of her experience. Starting in a little tent at a festival, winging it, the charity has become a huge force in making changes in health education, a dialogue about the C word and has literally saved the lives of many women who have gone to their GPs armed with Kris’ story. Keep up to date with Kris, and if you’re enjoying the podcast please post a story and tag her Instagram, and don’t forget you can find your way to CoppaFeel!In this special two part episode of Glittering A Turd Fearne fully opens up to Kris on her constant evolution and love of their friendship. Her determination to succeed and raise awareness during such a draining gruelling journey is awe inspiring. If you're not familiar with Kris then it may surprise you to know that eleven years after a terminal breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 23 she has written the most positive, inspiring and life affirming book. From taking photographs and traveling the world with the likes of Oasis and Miriah Carey to showing war at its worst as photojournalist, Giles Duley has seen more than many of us but after stepping on an explosive device, an IED, during a visit to Afghanistan in 2011 he has experienced more than most of us too. Glittering a Turd is more than just another cancer memoir; it’s a handbook for living life to the fullest, shining a new perspective on survival and learning to glitter your own turd, whatever it might be.