The actor’s cancer memoir There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You, published just before her death last month, has become an instant bestseller• Lynda Bellingham obituary
The public response to the late Lynda Bellingham’s memoir about life since her cancer diagnosis, which has topped the charts for a third week with sales of more than 150,000 copies in just a month, has been described as a “standing ovation” by her friends and family.
The actor and broadcaster wrote There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You in just two months, following her diagnosis with colon cancer last July. It was published on 9 October, just days before she died on 19 October, and looks set to become a surprise hit this Christmas. “As I am writing these words I glance at my watch and I realise it is exactly a year since I started this deadly affair with the disease that wants to destroy me,” she writes in its early pages, after covering the colonoscopy which revealed three tumours. “A year has gone already - how quickly time flies when you are having fun!”
Her publisher Hodder & Stoughton said today that 115,121 copies of the memoir have sold in hardback and more than 50,000 as ebooks already, putting it on top of the adult bestseller lists for the third week running, well ahead of new titles from Russell Brand, Jamie Oliver, Lena Dunham and Boris Johnson. Last week it sold 27,272 hardbacks, according to the book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, almost triple the amount of the number two bestseller, Roy Keane’s The Second Half, which sold 10,496 copies. There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You also has over 1,000 reviews on Amazon, 990 of them five-star.
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The actor and broadcaster wrote There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You in just two months, following her diagnosis with colon cancer last July. It was published on 9 October, just days before she died on 19 October, and looks set to become a surprise hit this Christmas. “As I am writing these words I glance at my watch and I realise it is exactly a year since I started this deadly affair with the disease that wants to destroy me,” she writes in its early pages, after covering the colonoscopy which revealed three tumours. “A year has gone already - how quickly time flies when you are having fun!”
Her publisher Hodder & Stoughton said today that 115,121 copies of the memoir have sold in hardback and more than 50,000 as ebooks already, putting it on top of the adult bestseller lists for the third week running, well ahead of new titles from Russell Brand, Jamie Oliver, Lena Dunham and Boris Johnson. Last week it sold 27,272 hardbacks, according to the book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, almost triple the amount of the number two bestseller, Roy Keane’s The Second Half, which sold 10,496 copies. There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You also has over 1,000 reviews on Amazon, 990 of them five-star.
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