Best-selling author diagnosed with "aggressive" brain cancer
Best-selling author Sophie Kinsella has shared that she has been fighting "aggressive" brain cancer since the end of 2022.
The British writer took to Instagram to reveal she was diagnosed with glioblastoma 18 months ago, and shared why she chose to keep the devatstsing news out of the spotlight.
The 54-year-old said she wanted to "make sure my children were able to hear and process the news in privacy and adapt to our new normal" before going public with her diagnosis.
"I have been under the care of the excellent team at University College Hospital in London and have had successful surgery and subsequent radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which is still ongoing," she told her followers on Instagram.
"At the moment all is stable and I am feeling generally very well, though I get very tired and my memory is even worse than it was before!"
Kinsella said she is "so grateful to my family and close friends who have been an incredible support to me, and to the wonderful doctors and nurses who have treated me."
She also thanked her readers for their "constant support", adding how the reception of her latest novel The Burnout, released in October 2023, "really buoyed me up during a difficult time."
She ended her statement by saying, "To everyone who is suffering from cancer in any form I send love and best wishes, as well as to those who support them."
"It can feel very lonely and scary to have a tough diagnosis, and the support and care of those around you means more than words can say."
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