Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck. Having been assured for the previous 2 years that this was a benign cyst, Diamond was told that it was, in fact, cancerous. Suddenly, this man who'd until this point been one of the world's greatest hypochondriacs, was genuinely faced with mortality. And what he saw scared the wits out of him. Out of necessity, he wrote about his feelings in his "Times" column and the response was staggering. "Mailbag" followed Diamond's story of life with, and without, a lump - the humiliations, the ridiculous bits, the funny bits, the tearful bits. It's compelling, profound, witty, in the mould of "The Diving Bell & The Butterfly".
- ISBN10 140900130X
- ISBN13 9781409001300
- Publish Date 21 November 2008 (first published 8 April 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 August 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Imprint Ebury Digital
- Format eBook
- Language English