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Just One More Day
While Susan, a typical feisty seven year old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling to hold onto her courage too. Though bound by an indestructible love, their journey through a world that is darkening with tragedy, is fraught with the kind of misunderstandings that bring as much laughter as pain, and as many dreams as nightmares. How does a child cope when faced with a wall of adult secrets? What does a mother do when her biggest fear starts to become a reality? Because it's the sixties, and because it's shameful to own up to feelings, Eddress tries to deny the truth, while Susan creates a world that will never allow her mother to leave.
Amongst all the fighting and laughter, the redheaded tempers and female contests, there is the quiet strength of the man Eddress so proudly married, and the father Susan so readily adores. And then there's Gary - the noisy, rambunctious toddler who turns their ordinary home into a place of chaos and happiness, and who Susan takes much delight in trying to scare.
Set in a world where a fridge is a luxury, cars have starting handles, and where bingo and coupons bring in the little extras, Just One More Day is a deeply moving true life account, told by mother and daughter, of how the spectre of death moved into their family, and how they tried to pretend it wasn't there.
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