Gail - The Author

After nearly five years enjoying our two sons’ early childhood, our perfect world began to fall apart and the clock starting ticking. Oncology became a familiar word on our tongues. Our lives revolved around chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions. Leukaemia was no longer a remote form of cancer; it was part of Matthew’s body, the baby that had grown inside mine and that I had protected for nine months. Instead of playschool toys being familiar recreational items for Matthew, toys in the Birmingham Children’s Hospital became distractions for the impending onslaught of treatment.

The roller coaster ride of emotions, family pressures, life changing decisions, choices as to which child to be with, faith tested to the limit, are just a few of the difficulties encountered during that season of my life. ‘Where, why, how, what’; questions that are voiced by most people or at least on the tip of everyone’s tongue, are faced in the book.

How do you tell your parents that they will outlive their grandchild? How do you tell your seven year old son that his best friend, his brother, is going to die? How do you not fall apart when you see your loving husband stand guard over his beloved son and watch as his precious life slips away? How do you watch the dawn rise, knowing that by the time it sets your child will have died? How do you make yourself breathe again when your son has just taken his final breath? How do you live again after the death of your child?

Harvest from Heartache takes the reader on a journey, introducing them to a little boy they never knew, and to a reality of faith that supercedes religion. It shows how one short life can have such a profound effect upon others decades later. It’s a book that will touch even the hardest reader.

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