Getting it Off My Chest

How I Lost My Breast and Found Myself. At the age of 39, seven stone overweight, unhappily married and unfulfilled, Janice Day was diagnosed with breast cancer, and recommended for a full mastectomy. In 'Getting It Off My Chest', she recounts, with wit, frankness and charm, how the gruelling experience of illness, of breast surgery and reconstruction, prompted her to examine what was wrong with her life and how to make it better.