My offer to you and your book club I want to share my story with you and your friends and I’d love Always With You to be included in your book club reading list in 2019. I’ve created a Special Book Club Package, which I hope will help bring my story to life and inject a bit of extra pizazz More →
These last few days have really made me question something about myself. I’m a naturally affectionate, warm and giving person. I feel that there is no point having relationships (of any type) if you aren’t going to nurture them and give of yourself to some degree. But, trusting someone and opening up to them and giving of myself freely, doesn’t More →
I had a rather cryptic message from my friend Sian www.siantphoto.com on Friday. “Do you have a red kurti/dress? And also how do you feel about a short walk in the woods early Sunday morning to catch the mist? The two are connected to a photo idea.” Now I’m used to Sian and her crazy, artistic and wonderful ideas – More →
Many of you will know that it has been a hugely tough couple of years for me. Losing my beautiful and kind Jeremy was the most devastating thing to have happened in my life. Not long after I lost my mother-in-law (Jeremy’s mum), and this year my beloved father, my close friend Paula and a few weeks ago my lovely, More →
Over the last few years I have been struck by how scared people are about talking about dying. So I get it – it isn’t the most cheerful topic to talk about over the dinner table! And, I think some of my friends are beginning to avoid me as I become a “death bore”. But, the thing is, we need More →
For Jeremy…. Hamari Adhoori Prem Kahani Jab hum mile to zindagi mili Do dil, do jaan ek hue Jab hum mile to hamari jahan ek hogayi Hamari prem kahani ko dhadkhan mili Lekin takdeerne hamarisaat bewafi kee Kuch pal ke liye humko judaa kargayi Ehsaas huan ki hum ek doosre ke bina saas nahin lesakte Aur hamari prem kahani adhoori More →
A paragraph from Chapter 23 I started writing this book as I entered my second year of mourning. I wanted to pay tribute to Jeremy, to express what he meant to me and to show exactly what kind of a man he was. Though hard at times, it has been a deeply cathartic experience, allowing me both the pleasure of More →
A paragraph from Chapter 22 It was an article in the Guardian that started me thinking about the idea of legacy. The article, ‘Top Five Regrets of the Dying’, was based on a book written by a palliative nurse, Bronnie Ware. She had spent years caring for people in their final hours and they had shared their thoughts with her More →