''Before I Say Goodbye'' is a book by

Ruth Picardie Ruth Nadine Picardie (1 May 1964 – 22 September 1997) was an English journalist and editor. Life Ruth Nadine Picardie was born on 1 May 1964 in Reading, Berkshire, the daughter of South African émigrés. She studied Social Anthropology at Ki ...

. It was published in September 2000 by

Henry Holt and Company Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt (publisher), Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. The company publishes in ...

. Compiled and edited by her sister and husband, it uses Picardie's newspaper columns and correspondence to tell the story of her life with

breast cancer Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a Breast lump, lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, Milk-rejection sign, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipp ...

, to which she succumbed in September 1997.

In other works

*In her 1999 autobiography '' If Only'',

Geri Halliwell Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner (''née'' Halliwell; born 6 August 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, author, and actress. She rose to fame in the mid-1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, in which ...

says she was reading ''Before I Say Goodbye'' around the time she left the

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British non-fiction books Breast cancer English non-fiction books Henry Holt and Company books 2000 non-fiction books Non-fiction books about cancer {{bio-book-stub