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An illustrated intimate and honest life review of artist Diane Goldie, mother and grandmother that began when her world fell apart after losing her eldest daughter to suicide. This tragic event exploded her world as she knew it and opened up a brand new way of looking at life, love, grief and everything through the lens of neurodivergence. Trying to find out the reason her daughter took her own life led her to discoveries about herself and her family that she hadn't anticipated. A secret mission is revealed between her and her deceased daughter, with synchronicities and signposts lighting up the way ahead. What started off as a search for ""Why?"" ultimately turned into a deep knowing. This memoir became a part of the mission, a way of reaching out to others like her and planting many seeds of hope and healing.It includes a frank exploration of the consequences of child sexual abuse, its link with neurodivergence and what it takes to get to a place of recovery. Maybe we are not broken, maybe we are just different?

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This book is honest and feels like it comes straight from the heart. I couldn't put it down! While it's not always an easy read (Diane shares personal experiences of abuse, trauma, and grief), her storytelling makes it moving and joyful read. This is such a good book rammed with treasures and woven so poetically around personal tragedy and loss. A life lived incredibly creatively has been written into a book with the high caliber of a true and talented story teller. A beautifully written personal book. Truly inspiring. A woman's journey of acceptance of after the loss of a child. Something noone should ever have to experience. Yet Diane has become stronger for it. I would highly recommend this book. Excellent. A powerful, meaningful read. Highly recommend

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Diane Goldie is a painter and textile artist, proud ( self diagnosed) Audhd neurodivergent, too honest, chaotic creative, mother, grandmother and former Jezebel. Born in Mansfield, UK in the mid 60s, she spent her adolescence in Apartheid South Africa until she could earn her own money to return to grey skies and daisies in the grass that she called home. She has lived in Brixton, South London since the mid 80s, following creative insistence from the Mystery and alchemising challenging experiences into art . This is her first book.

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