Writer tells Lauren Laverne on Desert Island Discs how she felt ‘connected to the world’ when discussing her breast cancer
Social media can be a force for good when it becomes a place for honest discussion about illness, author Joanne Harris is to argue in a candid radio interview.
Harris, known for her bestselling 1999 book Chocolat, suffered panic attacks when she became famous and would pass out in public. She will tell host Lauren Laverne this morning[Sunday]today she is glad she overcame her nerves and shared the news she had been diagnosed with breast
cancer last year. Speaking on
BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, the writer said that she felt “so connected to the world” because she had “shared so much online”.