Ruth Nadine Picardie was born on 1 May 1964 in Reading, Berkshire, the daughter of South African émigrés.
[2] Her memoir of living with breast cancer, Before I Say Goodbye, was published posthumously, culled from five columns written for The Observer's magazine Life, and from her personal correspondence.
Seaton was a keen competitive cyclist and is the author of The Escape Artist, which concentrates on his love of amateur cycling but also chronicled his wife's breast cancer.
[5][6][7] The Trust focuses on raising funds and support for younger women suffering from breast cancer.
Picardie and Wagstaff's surgeon, Puvaneswary Markandoo, was subsequently found responsible for other misdiagnosis and negligence in surgical operations on women, and was removed from the medical register ('struck off') by the General Medical Council in December 2011.