Book description
Natascha McElhone, star of The Truman Show and Californication, was
filming in LA, seven months pregnant with her third child with her other
two young children playing in the gym across the road when she got a
call from a friend that would change her life forever. Her husband,
Martin, the love of her life and father to her delightful children and
an apparently healthy man in his early 40s had died suddenly of a heart
attack. In the weeks and months that followed the devastating shock
Natascha continued to write her diary and letters to Martin (something
she had always done as, due to her work, she was used to being far from
home). They were letters of love, letters about their gorgeous boys,
letters about the birth of the new baby and diary entries detailing the
mundane and heartbreaking details of her new life: house repairs and
terrifying family finances; trying to keep the children's lives as
normal as possible in the face of such abnormal new circumstances. The
result is a powerful, honest and moving story of a magical love affair
and all-consuming grief, of being a mother alone and trying to live for
the future. Natascha McElhone was born in London in 1971. She has
starred in a wide range of TV, film and theatre including
The Truman Show
and Californication
. She lives in London with her three boys.
