My husband VANISHED AT SEA

It’s a question some of you may well have found yourself Googling in despair, although I hope most of you haven’t, or will never have to: ‘How do you tell your children their dad is dead?’ The night I typed that into my phone, as I sat by the window, is etched onto my memory forever. Back then, I still held on to the vague glimmer of hope that Ben, my husband, was still alive, perhaps suffering amnesia or too injured to call. But in the months since that day, me and my children, Monty, now nine, Hector, seven, and Tabitha, two, have been forced to accept a new kind of reality, one their Dad isn’t part