Maria Housden shares the transformative lessons in living she received from her three-year-old daughter Hannah, who brought courage, honesty and joy to her struggle with cancer. During the last year of her short life, Hannah was fearless in the way she faced death - and irrepressibly joyful in the way she approached living. The little girl who wore her favourite red shoes into the operating theatre changed the life of everyone who came in contact with her. Now Housden recounts Hannah's battle with cancer in simple, straightforward language that transcends grief and fear to become a celebration.
Maria Housden Books
Unraveled
The True Story of a Woman who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother
- 296 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Housden shares the riveting story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as a wife and stay-at-home mom and strike out on her own in search of a more fulfilling life.
Maria Housden tells of her own transformation, as a mother, a wife and a woman, as she struggled to cope with the death of her daughter Hannah and make the hardest decision of her life. From the author of the bestselling Hannah's Gift. At the age of 36, instead of enjoying the perfect family life she had imagined as a child, Maria felt judged and found wanting by others. She realised that, no matter how much she still loved her husband and how powerful her bond of love was with her children, she had to change her life radically -- and make it her own again. So began an emotional and enlightening search for herself. Written in the same moving, lyrical style as Hannah's Gift, the story unfolds in a series of painful, joyful and humorous moments, at times heart-wrenchingly sad, but ultimately uplifting.
Geschenk van Hannah
Het ontroerende verhaal van een moeder over de dappere strijd van haar dochtertje
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Herinneringen van een moeder aan haar dochtertje dat op jonge leeftijd is overleden aan de gevolgen van kanker.