If You Were Here + Life Interrupted Fundraising Bundle Her memoir chronicles her evolution

Her memoir chronicles her evolution from a cancer patient who felt like an invisible number at the mercy of other people’s choices to an empowered advocate for herself who learnt the difference between blind compliance and trusting herself

but is also suitable to be used in educational and therapeutic settings to teach children about the feelings surrounding loss by navigating through the process together with the child narrator

Karina passed away on 27th September 2018

a stem cell transplant and her eventual palliation

Anita lives with her family in the sunny Bournemouth

If You Were Here + Life Interrupted Fundraising Bundle Her memoir chronicles her evolutionI wrote my picture book If You Were Here a few months after losing my mum, Karina Stell. Mum passed away from lymphoma in 2018 after a long battle, and the grief of losing my best friend, my anchor, but even more importantly, the loss for my children, was where If You Were Here was born from. Mum was also a writer and spent the final years of her life completing her own story her incredible and deeply moving memoir, Life Interrupted. She wanted to not