I am almost too nervous to put words to this beautiful book in case I discourage anyone from reading it and cause them to miss out on something precious. I have stopped weeping now and made myself a coffee. The book feels like a love letter, as Sarah Krasnostein writes in her opening chapter. I found myself thinking only half way through the book that if someone this warm and observant wrote a book about any of our lives we'd be at least partly healed by that vital and rare a

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“After my mother died in 2002 it took me a few years to get out all the papers she’d left and look through them. I was afraid it would be a mournful thing to do, but the first exercise book I opened spoke to me as if she was beside me, the warmth and humour of her voice alive still …” So begins Kate’s book, her mother’s story and the recording of her story rather than history. While the book describes a personal story it also describes what life was and to a significant exten