Extreme caring

Margaret Heathfield is moved by a powerful personal story

by Margaret Heathfield 20th January 2017

Dear Beryl,’ wrote a friend to the author’s wife, ‘I hear that you have been struck down.’ Beryl had suffered a stroke. Stuart Donnan, in his new book Extreme Caring – You Have To Go On, tells the story of the sixteen years that followed, through Beryl’s subsequent illnesses and disabilities and the later additional problems of dementia until her death in 2015.