‘It’s time to talk about dying,’ Kathryn Mannix writes. She has worked in palliative care for many years, and this book is a compendium of encounters she’s had with hospice patients and their families. It is by no means a sad book, though it aims to be a challenging one, to make us think ahead for when those times come,…
Anyone who has read Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North will know how intensely he researches his subject, how he draws the reader into his narrative and how one is left considering the subject matter long after the novel is over. His writing is uncompromising and often heartbreaking, but his observation of human nature I find…
In the Pittenweem Post this month there is an update on the Pittenweem and District Community Council; its achievements, its sad dissolution, and now a CALL TO ACTION. If you love your community then please consider getting involved - details are in the Pittenweem Post. Check out how the British Divers Marine Life Rescue teams are working with local volunteers…