Shortly before his 44th birthday John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck. Having been assured for the previous 2 years that this was a benign cyst Diamond was told that it was in fact cancerous. Suddenly this man who'd until this point been one of the world's greatest hypochondriacs was genuinely faced with mortality. & what he saw scared the wits out of him. Out of necessity he wrote about his feelings in his TIMES column & the response was staggering. Mailbag followed Diamond's story of life with & without a lump
- the humiliations the ridiculous bits the funny bits the tearful bits. It's compelling profound witty in the mould of THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY.