Dame Deborah’s book tops charts
DAME Deborah James told of her pride yesterday as her new book topped Amazon’s bestsellers chart just 24 hours after it was announced.
The cancer campaigner, known as the Bowel Babe, wrote on Instagram: ‘I’m blown away and utterly grateful by the response... and the sheer numbers of you who have kindly ordered it.’ Dame Deborah, 40, who is receiving end-of-life care for stage four bowel cancer, said she is ‘gutted’ she will not live to see her second book published on August 18.
How To Live When You Could Be Dead has now overtaken Richard Osman’s blockbuster mystery novel The Man Who Died Twice on Amazon’s chart through pre-orders alone.
For every edition sold in the UK, £3 will go to Dame Deborah’s Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK. Donations have soared past £6.3million following the news that Dame Deborah has entered hospice care. Prince William delivered her gong in person last Friday, spending time with the former podcast presenter’s husband Seb and children Hugo, 14, and Eloise, 12.