The Long Road to Freedom

People in my position must often ask themselves what the answer is? How did I get here? At what cost? <br>And how did I finally come out on the other side into a world where the grass is green and smells fresh. And where life is worth living and relishing for every last facet of its existence - a place where utopia can exist for the simplest of men. <br>It is ironic that what finally triggered my debut book was being handed the psychiatric report on our youngest daughter's suicide. <br>People always say that inside every good journalist is a book and I always joked that that ruled me out in that case. <br>But then I thought about what everyone is looking for - the secret of a happy life. And this story is about the journey that it took to get there. <br>We will never be able to bring her back. Obviously. But we can take massive strides towards rebuilding a family that was once so strong and bringing it back to a time when laughter really was the most valuable thing we had. <br>You will laugh and you will cry in equal measure and hopefully somewhere along the way you will be inspired. <br>But what you could not do no matter how you tried is make any of this stuff up.