Less than two weeks before her death,the author gave no inkling of her illness but talked eagerly about her memoir, as yet unpublishedLess than two weeks ago, and as she contemplated her looming 78th birthday,Jackie Collins was in a firmly optimistic mood. “I couldn’t care less about my age, she said. “I’m still here, and I love what I carry out,and I gain a passion for it … it’s better than the alternative.”They did not seem like the words of a woman facing a terminal illness. And yet in Los Angeles on Saturday, the British-born author whose 32 books on glamour, and sex and affairs in Hollywood were international best-sellers,died of breast cancer after being first diagnosed more than six years ago. She had kept the illness secret from all but her closest family and friends.
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Source: theguardian.com