| Descript |
vi, 173 p. : ill. |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1. Carol Drinkwater, award-winning actress and author of the best-selling 'Olive Farm' trilogy, on her experience of miscarriages and how she mourns the children she lost; 2. Catherine Dunne, award-winning Irish novelist, who started writing in 1981 after her second child was still born and she almost died in labour; 3. Joanna Moorhead, Guardian columnist and writer on family life, on the death of her sister, when they were both toddlers, in a hit and run incident. 4. Mary Craig, biographer and author of the spiritual classic, Blessings, on nursing her severaly handicapped son Paul for 10 years and how grief mixed with relief at his death; 5. Lady Louise Patten, English financial thriller writer and the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 Company, on how the death of her teenage brother set her on course for the City; 6. Robin Baird-Smith, publishing director of Continuum, on the death of his son in a car crash; 7. Barry Mizen, father of 18-year-old Jimmy, who was stabbed to death in 2009 in a knife attack in south London; 8. Augusto Odone, on losing his long battle to save his son Lorenzo, despite finding a cure for his illness, known as Lorenzo's Oil and the subject of the Hollywood film of the same name; 9. Wendy Perriam, English novelist, on the death of her adult daughter from a rare cancer; Conclusion. |
| Note |
400 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9781441168863 (e-book) |
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