‘It’s possible to turn loss into something beautiful’
Katie Carr, 45, lives in Barcelona with her partner and two young sons.
Three months before his death, I interviewed my brother Toby for a podcast. ‘If you want to do something, the time is now,’ he said, an attitude that sprang from a lifetime adapting to loss. In 1988, when I was 11, our brother Marcus nine and Toby just six, we lost our mum Bron to a viral brain injury. A few years later, Marcus and Toby were diagnosed with Fanconi anaemia – a rare and life-limiting genetic illness that leads to bone marrow failure and various cancers – and told they’d be lucky to
