The story behind - "The Long Cold Nights of June
I wrote the book firstly to help and share with anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide or in an unexpected tragic way — a car crash, drug overdose, murder, heart attack, brain aneurysm, something unimagined that shocks you and traumatizes you. I had never imagined my little brother, who was 10 years younger than me, killing himself. He was the big tough guy in our family. So when the police turned up at our family home where I was living in 2006 with my two youngest sons, I couldn’t imagine what they were doing here — lost? When they told me that my brother was dead, I thought he must have had a car accident or complications from another car accident, he was in weeks prior. Furthermore, when they said he’d killed himself, I just started screaming… like on TV, you watch the lady who had bad news and she screams and screams, that was me and I was almost embarrassed. I think if I hadn’t of screamed I would have just fainted and inside I was saying “this is so embarrassing but