Life Wish [Paperback]

Jill Ireland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1988

Jill Ireland had everything: a thriving film career, seven devoted children, lavish homes, a horse farm in Vermont, and a happy marriage to movie star Charles Bronson. Then she learned she had cancer. Life Wish is the story of her inspired fight using every traditional and untraditional method, to save her own life. HC: Little, Brown. (Nonfiction)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Ireland, wife of actor Charles Bronson and herself an actress, discovered she had cancer in the summer of 1984, and here tells the story of her battle with the disease. In an affluent family setting that includes children from the previous marriages of both husband and wife, she struggled to develop the positive attitude that experts posit is an element of resistance to disease. In addition to conventional chemotherapy after her mastectomy, Ireland undertook holistic healing that involved homeopathic treatment, lying on an electromagnetic table and meditation with quartz crystals. With the assistance of these therapies and the support of her family, to whom she pays fulsome tribute, she explored her inner resources. Illness caused a reassessment of values, a scaling down of lifestyle, until she forged an understanding of pain and an ability to face a life-threatening situation. Upbeat and, despite some theatrical hyperbole, inspiring. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Ladies Home Journal.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

With this book Jill Ireland, actress and wife of actor Charles Bronson, joins the roster of celebrity women including Betty Rollins and Betty Ford who have written books about their experiences as breast cancer patients. Although her treatment consisted principally of the traditional surgery followed by drug treatments, Ireland also sought out a variety of other therapies such as homeopathy and meditation to help her cope with the psychological and emotional effects of the disease and the debilitating reactions to medication. The book chronicles both physical and mental aspects of the recovery, emphasizing the mind-body connection in physical illnesses like cancer in a positive, sometimes humorous style. Karen McNally Bensing, Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Jove (February 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515096091
• ISBN-13: 978-0515096095
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #485,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring, did she eventually die of cancer?, June 30, 1998

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This review is from: Life Wish (Paperback)

I'm captured by Jill Ireland's honesty and selflessness. I'd like to read her sequel.

5.0 out of 5 stars A day in the life of Jill's life and Charles., December 20, 2010

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This review is from: Life Wish (Paperback)

This book is quiet honestly and simply written. Jill brings you right into her life. One feels the beautiful bond of the true love this couple have been given and feel for each other. Their appreciation of life amist sickness and maybe pending death is sad.

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring hopeful message fighting breast cancer, October 1, 2010

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I really enjoyed reading Jill Ireland's Life Wish. It describes her life at the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She describes in detail her fight against this disease using both conventional and unconventional means. It is well written and through out the book she never stops encouraging the reader with her hopeful message that this disease can be beaten.
You are drawn into her life of her husband, Charles Bronson, her children, stepchildren and friends as she travels life's path in her fight against disease. Her next book Life Lines details her fathers condition with aphasia following a stroke and her son Jason's struggle with addiction. At the time of her death I had heard she was working on a third book Life Times but her husband was against publishing it.