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Sewing Sequins On My Straight Jacket: How to get your nine-year old through cancer, and still be able to laugh …
When single mum Sharon moved her two children from the Home Counties, following a messy divorce, to the wilds of Devon, she had no idea if her bid for freedom could possibly work. But it did. Until her son was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, three days after his ninth birthday.
The three of them were tipped out of an ambulance, lived at his hospital bedside for six months, forcing the abandonment of their seventeenth century stone cottage and two black cats.
Sharon Cook is a former news journalist who now writes historical and contemporary novels. She skidded to a halt in Devon some years ago, with two young children in tow, who have since morphed into young adults They’ve had quite a few adventures, some more fulfilling than others, but have always been able to return to their seventeenth century stone cottage. One day Sharon plans to write full time, rather than working in prison libraries or running creative workshops. Collecting vintage, silversmithing and avoiding housework keep Sharon out of trouble – mostly. The rest of the time she can be found working with a blue light charity, where inspiring people and stories are never far away.
This life experience was powered by CLIC Sargent (now Young Lives vs Cancer), The Teenage Cancer Trust and Cancer Lifeline South West (CLSW).
