Kadian Journal - Thomas Harding

In July 2012 Thomas Harding's fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. This book is the result.

Beginning on the day of Kidian's death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary and beyond, Kadian Journal is at once a record of grief, a moving tribute to a lost son, and a celebration of a life lived to its fullest. 

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Of this book Stephen Fry wrote

The malicious and random brutality of fate and the racking pain of loss have met their match in Thomas Harding who miraculously turns those horrors into something memorably great.

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I can't imagine how any parent feels when they are told that their child has a life limiting illness and the grieving following their death.  Kadian wasn't ill he was full of life just starting that journey from adolescent to becoming the man he was destined to be when fate changed his family forever. 

Thomas Harding's book is full of emotion from tears to laughter and life without his son and the impact on the family. 

Written with raw emotion and as soon as I saw it sitting on the bookshelf I knew I had to have it and that it would have to be the next book I read. 

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Following on my next read is to be Judy Finnigan's Eloise. 

I usually steer clear of novels written by TV Presenters. Not because I don't think they can write but that's not the capacity I normally see them in. Having heard Judy Finnigan taking part in an interview with Graham Norton on his Saturday morning radio show a little while ago,  where she described her the thought process behind her writing style, I suddenly got the notion that may be I should be looking at her novels more objectively. 

I have both her novels Eloise and I do not sleep but I am starting with Eloise.

Happy Reading one & all

Mx