Stories from: The North Wall, Oxford

We took my 4 and 2 year old girls to my husband’s Grandmother’s funeral. I carefully explained to them in

My great friend’s father died after illness in old age. His mother was fragile with, if not actual dementia, a

Syd was a man of the moorland in the Yorkshire Moors. He had a way with animals and would make

Birds, animals, people all died but I wasn’t there. I was at boarding school from the age of 5 –

My 22-month-old son died in the evening in hospital. I knew I wanted either to spend the night with him

We had a stillborn baby girl at full term. Our first child. No experience of being a family. No rest

My father died when I was 21. He had cancer but the death was sudden. I lived in London, and