THANK YOU, Dame Deborah
When Dame Deborah James was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer in December 2016, it would have been easy for her to fall apart.
But as a wife, a mum-of-two and a deputy head teacher, that simply wasn’t Deborah’s way – as she told Woman in 2018, she wasn’t going to ‘go quietly’.
She set up a blog,, sharing her experiences with brutal, often funny, honesty. She then created and hosted the award-winning podcast with Lauren Mahon and Rachael Bland. In her final months, she created the Bowelbabe Fund, which
