5,742 days
Subtitle: a mother's journey through loss
By: Anne-Marie Cockburn
Publisher: Infinite Ideas
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781908984241
Subjects: Death and burial; Bereavement; Children; Death; Loss (Psychology); Parent and child
Other titles: Five-thousand, seven-hundred and forty-two days
Description: On 20th July 2013 15-year-old Oxford schoolgirl Martha Fernback died suddenly after swallowing half a gram of MDMA powder, more widely known as ecstasy. Within hours, her mother, Anne-Marie Cockburn, began to write down her feelings as a way to channel her shock and try to make sense of the tragic loss of her only child. This revealing, emotional and ultimately uplifting book shows how she used the art of writing, combined with determined self-belief, to guide her during this terrible time.