Life without rob

Sometimes, the course of your life can hinge on a single day. One such day in April 2023 was both my bleakest-ever moment, and the day my husband proposed. It was a Friday afternoon when the consultan

B efore you came into my world, I ...

When journalist and author Hunter Davies lost his wife of more than 50 years, the novelist Margaret Forster, he began writing to her instead

As my wife carried our little one, something more sinister was growing inside me

Reaching for my wife Lisa’s hand, the consultant’s words just swam around my mind. ‘I’m afraid you have ovarian cancer. You only have three to five years left to live.’ It was March 2015, and with tho

We’re having a girl!’ my husband Rick, then 29, shouted as he spun me around and pink confetti showered down around us. It was March 2016 and I was 14 weeks pregnant with our first baby. Rick had kept