Fiona Phillips is one of our best‎-loved television presenters‎.‎ Well‎-known for being warm‎,‎ chatty and down to earth‎,‎ she attended her local comprehensive in Southampton before studying English in Birmingham‎.‎ For over twelve years she presented GMTV‎,‎ during which time she interviewed some of the most famous and influential people on the planet‎,‎ from film stars to royalty‎,‎ politicians to local heroes‎.‎ But in August 2008 Fiona announced that she was to quit the job she loved‎,‎ revealing that her father‎,‎ Phil‎,‎ had been diagnosed with Alzheimer‎'‎s just a year after her mother had died of the same disease and that she had decided to devote more time to him and to her family‎.‎ ‎"‎Before I Forget‎"‎ is a wonderfully honest account of growing up in the 1960s and 70s within a complex family‎.‎ During her childhood her father could sometimes be distant and demanding which both saddened her and drove her to succeed‎,‎ her mother always the devoted wife and the steady heart of the family‎.‎ When Fiona lands the job at GMTV she revels in how proud they are of her achievement‎.‎When her mother and then her father succumb to Alzheimer‎'‎s we share in Fiona‎'‎s sadness as she movingly describes watching them fade away‎,‎ one moment interviewing George Clooney the next taking a call from Pembrokeshire Social Services to say that her mother had wandered away from her care home‎.‎ ‎"‎Before I Forget‎"‎ is an extraordinary book which will resonate with Fiona‎'‎s millions of fans and the millions of people who day‎-by‎-day are going through‎,‎ or have gone through‎,‎ the same experiences‎.‎