We’ll never give up

Louisa Smith, 37, Bedford

Blowing on my nails, I extended my arm to assess my new manicure.

‘That suits you,’ my sister Vicky, then 38, grinned.

It was September 2018 and me, Vicky, her wife Naomi, then 44, and our mum Wendy, then 63, were enjoying a girly spa day.

We’d lost my dad Michael, 64, to leukaemia that May.

Funny, caring – the glue of our family – his passing took a devastating toll on us all.

Adjusting to life without him was tough.

So a pamper day was just what we needed.

And for