Friday's Child

Oct 6, 2024 9:24 AM

Author:Ben Palmer

Friday's Child

In 2004, Jessica Palmer died suddenly of septicaemia, just six days after giving birth to her second child. Distraught, her husband Ben struggled to comprehend his loss and to care for their two young children. It later came to light that Jessica's condition can usually be easily detected and prevented but in this case nothing was done until it was too late. Ben and his family successfully sued the NHS for negligence in 2007.

This is Ben's heartbreaking story of dealing with his grief while raising two small children as a single parent. As he tries to accept the idea of life without his beloved wife, he battles shock, grief, despair and guilt, before finally finding hope in the future, thanks to the love and support of his friends and family. It is a devastating story of living with a cruel and needless loss.

Reviews

Poses questions that will not go away

—— Rhoda Koenig , Evening Standard

She is...very, very funny

—— Kate Saunders , Sunday Times

Utterly and irresistibly feminine book

—— Jeffrey Taylor , Express on Sunday

She writes it sharply, rawly, truly

—— Helen Brown , Daily Telegraph

Packed with fascinating social history ... compelling and informative

—— Scarlet

In telling the stories of those who use them, Cocks shows how personal columns were not only a vital way of making friends and meeting lovers but also of forging a community when homosexuality was still illegal, when being single past the age of 21 was seen as embarrassingly shameful and when the difficulty of divorce could make marriage seem an intolerable burden

—— Telegraph

the great pleasure of this book is the jump from the euphemistic wording in the ads to the sexual truth behind it

—— Harry Mount , Literary Review

Whether you're a SWF, NS, GSOH or merely intrigued by the lives behind the acronyms, this book takes a quirky look at modern relationships

—— Lauren Laverne , Grazia

How Britain has evolved from Victorian prudishness is the subject of this engrossing survey of our quest for love and sex over the past century

—— London Paper

An interesting look at a social phenomenon that is becoming less and less shrouded in stigma as virtual reality becomes the norm

—— Time Out

A fascinating book

—— Word Magazine

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