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    The Third Chair: The Diary Of A Daughter Coping With The Challenges Of Her Mother's Terminal Illness
    The Third Chair: The Diary Of A Daughter Coping With The Challenges Of Her Mother's Terminal Illness
    The Third Chair: The Diary Of A Daughter Coping With The Challenges Of Her Mother's Terminal Illness
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    The Third Chair: The Diary Of A Daughter Coping With The Challenges Of Her Mother's Terminal Illness

    By Iris Crook

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    These are to be the reflections and memories of my mother’s diagnosis and subsequent death from cancer, two months later and all that fell in between. I write it for the purposes of reflection, to record diary entries, for my family and children and for those who may be just as confused as I was as I began this journey. Life goes on still, as a mother, wife, employee, carer, student and friend.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIris Crook
    Release dateDec 18, 2013
    ISBN9781310916496
    The Third Chair: The Diary Of A Daughter Coping With The Challenges Of Her Mother's Terminal Illness
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    Iris Crook

    For over thirty years, Iris has been sharing and inspiring others with her words through writing and poems. She is a writer, a daughter, a friend, a carer, an employee, a wife and mother. Iris brings to you an inspirational book on the impact of terminal cancer on a family. Iris was born in Yorkshire, England and came to Australia with her family at that age of two, and has lived here since. She enjoys returning to England and her extended family whenever she has the opportunity.

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