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Handle With Care
My life as a young carer, the loss of my parents and how I learned to live again
Rochelle Bugg(0)
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In this heart-breaking, inspirational memoir, Rochelle nurses her beloved mother through a terminal brain tumour. With sensitivity and enormous emotional depth, Handle with Care provides a window into the life of a young carer.
When her mum falls seriously ill, 25-year-old Rochelle decides to give up her new job and move home to become her mother's full-time carer and look after her sisters. After the initial diagnosis of a stroke gives way to one of terminal cancer, Rochelle cares for her mother through her illness - helping her as the illness makes everyday life increasingly difficult - and remaining by her side when she passes away. And then, while still grieving, Rochelle must find her way back into the world again.
A moving, painfully honest account, Handle with Care is a book about the agony of loss and the transformative power of grief, as well as an emotional handbook for anyone who has lost a loved one. Having lost both of parents by her mid-20s, Rochelle felt there wasn't much support for people her age. She found that nobody was talking about how being a carer affects young people, as if everyone presumes that from your mid-teens to your mid-thirties, you will be too busy Instagramming photos from your holiday in Ibiza and going for a cheeky Nandos to ever have to worry about losing someone you love. She wanted to change that, which is why she has written this book. My life as a carer and how I learned to live again There are 7 million carers in the UK, and 700,000 of those are classed as young carers. Each year Young Carer Awareness Day in January gains more and more traction so there is clearly a very obvious need from a distinct community for a book like this and Rochelle is incredibly promotable - and extremely motivated and willing. Rochelle has written for the Huffington Post, has existing contacts at The One Show and This Morning, and is a face of Stand Up 4 Cancer. This book will speak to a younger audience in a similar way to how Katie Piper did. There is a very obvious need from a distinct community for a book like this and she's incredibly promotable.
When her mum falls seriously ill, 25-year-old Rochelle decides to give up her new job and move home to become her mother's full-time carer and look after her sisters. After the initial diagnosis of a stroke gives way to one of terminal cancer, Rochelle cares for her mother through her illness - helping her as the illness makes everyday life increasingly difficult - and remaining by her side when she passes away. And then, while still grieving, Rochelle must find her way back into the world again.
A moving, painfully honest account, Handle with Care is a book about the agony of loss and the transformative power of grief, as well as an emotional handbook for anyone who has lost a loved one. Having lost both of parents by her mid-20s, Rochelle felt there wasn't much support for people her age. She found that nobody was talking about how being a carer affects young people, as if everyone presumes that from your mid-teens to your mid-thirties, you will be too busy Instagramming photos from your holiday in Ibiza and going for a cheeky Nandos to ever have to worry about losing someone you love. She wanted to change that, which is why she has written this book. My life as a carer and how I learned to live again There are 7 million carers in the UK, and 700,000 of those are classed as young carers. Each year Young Carer Awareness Day in January gains more and more traction so there is clearly a very obvious need from a distinct community for a book like this and Rochelle is incredibly promotable - and extremely motivated and willing. Rochelle has written for the Huffington Post, has existing contacts at The One Show and This Morning, and is a face of Stand Up 4 Cancer. This book will speak to a younger audience in a similar way to how Katie Piper did. There is a very obvious need from a distinct community for a book like this and she's incredibly promotable.