Posted on July 21st, 2010 at 4:09 pm by 
Lynda Bellingham, 
Lost and Found, My Story.
“ everyone has a story to tell. I realise how fortunate I am to be able to publish.
I hope that people can identify with many of the things that have happened to me and I want everyone to know there is always hope at the end of the tunnel. “
Has Lynda Bellingham had an easy life…sadly in parts no she hasn’t…. but she has made the most of everything thrown at her.
She can be seen as one of the much loved panellists on Loose Women, she was on last years popular ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ She toured and was in the West End with Calender Girls and still found time to write a book.
It is a moving read, from her first sexless and loveless marriage to her second, an abusive one, but Lynda is survivor and has come out the other side with a fighting spirit, she is tenacious that’s for sure.
Her book is full of anecdotes and well known names, but you never feel she is ‘name dropping’, it has the ups and downs, a raw and intimate tale of her life, adopted in infancy she later searched and found her birth mother in Canada only to lose her to Alzheimer’s.
Her honest account of her drinking and how love third time around, Mr Spain, helped stop that pattern. Her sense of humour is always there even when at her lowest.
She is just the other side of 60yrs and looks fantastic, she tells us of her career, over 40 years in the business, she took over to play Helen wife of James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small, has appeared in Dr Who, At Home with the Braithwaites, Second Thoughts and the spin off Faith in the Future, a stunning baddie in The Bill and for many years she was the wonderful ‘OXO Mum’ …the list is endless.
What you get at the end of this book is a story of a vulnerable and yet a very courageous woman, someone you might like to have as your mate.
LYNDA BELLINGHAM, LOST AND FOUND, MY STORY published by Ebury Books
