Review
`This honest, beautifully expressed memoir relates Jeremy Howe's shock and grief, but beyond that it evokes fierce parental devotion, a remarkable understanding of small children and a grittiness that will chime with anybody who has experienced, or fears, such a calamity'
--Mail on Sunday
--Mail on Sunday
Product Description
In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe put his two daughters, Jessica, six and Lucy, four, to bed unaware of the devastating tragedy about to unfold.
Just after midnight the household was woken by a policeman who had come to tell them that Jeremy’s wife, Lizzie, who had been away teaching at a summer school, was dead. She had been murdered.
This is the candid, heartrending story of how Jeremy and his girls faced the worst thing that could possibly happen and, bit by bit and piece by piece, put their lives back together.
It's a story of how Daddy became Mummydaddy and of the pitfalls along the way, from how much to tell your children about their mother's violent death to the practicalities of knowing what they like in their packed lunch; from helping your children to grieve when your own grief is so sharp it threatens to overwhelm you to making sure that they brush their teeth and comb their hair.
It's a story full of tears, but also of love and family and redemption.
The Pan Real Lives Series brings together some truly remarkable stories. From moving accounts of suffering and redemption to fun and fabulous confessions, entertaining adventures and touching tales of devotion, these are life-changing stories told from the heart.
For the full range of titles available in The Pan Real Lives Series, visit www.panmacmillan.com/reallives
Just after midnight the household was woken by a policeman who had come to tell them that Jeremy’s wife, Lizzie, who had been away teaching at a summer school, was dead. She had been murdered.
This is the candid, heartrending story of how Jeremy and his girls faced the worst thing that could possibly happen and, bit by bit and piece by piece, put their lives back together.
It's a story of how Daddy became Mummydaddy and of the pitfalls along the way, from how much to tell your children about their mother's violent death to the practicalities of knowing what they like in their packed lunch; from helping your children to grieve when your own grief is so sharp it threatens to overwhelm you to making sure that they brush their teeth and comb their hair.
It's a story full of tears, but also of love and family and redemption.
The Pan Real Lives Series brings together some truly remarkable stories. From moving accounts of suffering and redemption to fun and fabulous confessions, entertaining adventures and touching tales of devotion, these are life-changing stories told from the heart.
For the full range of titles available in The Pan Real Lives Series, visit www.panmacmillan.com/reallives
