‘determination determination, generosity and courage: my daughter’

Annie Bennett, 58, shares her moving story of discovering she had not one but two types of cancer, and how both have brought a new positivity to her life.

The engine hummed as our car rumbled along the road, but the silence between me and my partner Andy, then 46, was deafening. It was November 2022, and I’d just had an MRI scan confirming the worst new

Oceans apart, but my bestie knew just the right words to say

Nicola Carey-Shine’s mum is her hero

The first time I experienced empty nest syndrome it came as a huge shock to my system. I wasn’t prepared for the sense of loss I would feel when my eldest daughter, Mia, left home to go to university.

Jess had already faced a huge blow, and another bombshell was lurking…