When Bryony Thomas was told the unimaginable news she had 12 weeks to live, she didn’t pray or instinctively feel she would beat the odds, she accepted she would die.
The entrepreneur, who recently moved to Gloucestershire after nearly 25 years in Bristol, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just days before Christmas in 2019. Only 7% of people who are given a diagnosis for the disease survive for five years or more.
Her first thought was for her eight-year-old daughter and her husband, having lost her own mother when she was just five years old. Her second was a determination to publish her book before she died.