Sophie Kinsella speaks about brain tumour diagnosis in resurfaced interview after her death

Author Sophie Kinsella reveals brain tumour left her unable to hold pen. Source: ITV

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00:00I feel so lucky and do you know what I lay in hospital and I thought well that's it I'll never

00:05write a book again because when I first was you know woke up after this operation I couldn't

00:11think straight I couldn't well I couldn't walk I couldn't hold a pen I couldn't write I tried to do

00:17to sign I practiced signing Sophie Kinsella it was an absolute mess I you know I was all over

00:23the place and I thought but even then I knew that what I was going through was so

00:31surreal and powerful and extreme that if I possibly could I would want to write about it

00:39one day I would want to process it into a story and so do you know what I did I got my phone

00:45and I put it on dictate function which is genius and I would just get my phone and say today this

00:52happened and this happened and this happened so you remember so that I would remember it right