Life now articles
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Life and Life Only
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
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now I have dedicated my working life to Cancer Research UK”
A woman who lost her mum and grandad to cancer on the same day has left her old career behind and is now working full time organising events for Cancer Research UK. Abi Malcolm, from Sheffield, experienced two major events on June 23, 2016: she gave birth to her second child, but also received the devastating news that her grandad, Stanley Andrews, had been diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. A short while later, Abi’s mum and Stanley’s daughter, Jennifer Andrews, started suffering from...
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Country diary: An old haunt that’s now full of life
Bedford: I knew this park nearly 40 years ago when there was little here but optimism. That vision been repaid handsomelyRight here, on top of a rubbish tip, I started my first paid job after college. A slab of clay slapped over a landfill site constituted much of the land that was rebirthed as Priory Country Park. There was no longer a priory, it was hardly in the country, and for those first arrivals in the newly grassed ground planted with a scatter of whips, it wasn’t much of a park. Our...