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Preface publisher Trevor Dolby has acquired world rights to a memoir by GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips.
The deal, for an undisclosed sum, was conducted via Jonathan Groves at Billy Marsh Associates. The book will be published in hardback by the Cornerstone imprint in autumn 2010.
Phillips has presented GMTV for more than 12 years but announced last year she would be quitting because her father had been diagnosed in 2008 with Alzheimer’s, two years after her mother had died of the same disease.
Phillips said the book would be “a frank and open account” of caring for her parents.
She added: “Hopefully, it’ll act as a rallying point for the hundreds of thousands of people who find themselves in the same horrible situation. The book won’t be all sadness however. Like most trials in life there are lots of lighter moments.”
Phillips has already written widely on Alzheimer’s in newspapers and magazines and has campaigned for more support from the government for carers.
In January, she made the programme “Mum, Dad, Alzheimer’s and Me” for Channel
Four. She is also a patron of the Alzheimer’s Society.