Author Sophie Kinsella reveals brain tumour left her unable to hold pen in first TV interview after diagnosis

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