Ruth Picardie (1964–1997)
Autor(a) de Before I Say Goodbye
About the Author
Ruth Picardie was raised & educated in London, Oxford, & Cardiff, England. She studied social anthropology at Cambridge University. After graduation, she worked as an editor & freelance writer for numerous magazines & newspapers. A happily married mother of twins, she was diagnosed with breast mostrar mais cancer at age thirty-two. She died in September of 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Ruth Picardie
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1964-05-01
- Data de falecimento
- 1997-09-22
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Educação
- Cambridge University (King's College)
Llanishen High, Cardiff - Ocupação
- journalist
editor - Relacionamentos
- Picardie, Justine (sister)
Seaton, Matt (husband) - Pequena biografia
- Ruth Picardie was a British journalist, writer and editor. Her obituary in The Independent said: Picardie was a generous and sensitive editor. Friends who worked with her early in her career, when she edited the film trade magazine the Producer, or worked at the shortlived women's magazine Mirabella, remember her as being direct and clear about what she wanted. In the 18 months that Picardie worked as an editor at the Independent, she was unfailingly encouraging, full of ideas and determined to get the best out of everybody. If you were down, she would dust you off and make you shine.
Her memoir of living with breast cancer, Before I Say Goodbye, was published posthumously, culled from columns she wrote and from her personal correspondence, by her husband and sister.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 243
- Popularidade
- #93,557
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 5
I picked this up from a library book sale years ago and read it in just a few hours. It's a book about a woman named Ruth Picardie who was diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 30's just after giving birth to her twins. She was an amazing journalist and her sister influenced her to write about her condition.
I was surprised by the format as pretty much the entire book contains personal email correspondence to and from friends and colleagues. It's also interlaced with thoughts from family and the five columns Ruth wrote about her condition.
Letter from Jenny Dee, 18 September 1997
Dearest Ruthie,
You are my best friend and I am so reluctant to let you go. I've been putting off thinking about you dying because I just don't know how my life will be without you. We have done so many hugely important and amazingly trivial things together - you are the diary that I never kept. The language of love and loss seems so inept at the moment. All I can say is that I will miss you forever, you are my best friend forever and I love you forever.
Even though Ruth was a very brave soul, the book still made me bawl my eyes out. By the time I got halfway through the book, I realized that Ruth was somebody I wish I would've known in my life. She was so courageous, positive, and kind. I couldn't imagine being in her shoes and she handled everything which such strength all the way up until the end. This is a book I'll always keep and my rating on it is 5*****.… (mais)