A personal memoir about falling in love and surviving cancer, alternating between Israel and the English coast, spanning two decades of excitement, adventure and friendship.
Now published with a wonderful review by a Booker Prize winner - check it out on Amazon....
When my partner was diagnosed with breast cancer I wrote every day because it helped, and about our past in case it was all our children would be left with.
Anna and I met on a kibbutz in the Golan Heights, fell in love above the Sea of Galilee, survived a terrorist attack, were hit by lightning. We explored the Dead Sea, had Christmas in Jerusalem. After there, we ended up in the cheapest hostel in Amsterdam's red light district, then homeless in Greece.
Fascinating to read and inspiring to others, Andalucía alternates between current and past. It combines past adventures and falling in love with a family struggling to come to terms with cancer and possible death, young children having to deal with their mammy's hair falling out from chemotherapy drugs, her breast being cut away. It is raw but is also a celebration of how community still exists and helps, how nature heals and about life in a village on the north east coast.