After facing her mortality, and all the fear that brought not just for her but for her young daughter, Megan Maurice discovered that once the momentum of pure survival was gone, she had to deal with its aftermath – and there were no tools for that. No guidelines, no rule books. What she wanted to know was if she was meant to go on, how did she go on? The world around her had not changed, even if she had. There just didn’t seem to be a place for her, so she made one. She went on to research trauma and recovery, and discuss lived experiences with many survivors – how they faced their darkest days and greatest worries. Megan has written the very manual she needed but couldn’t find, and in the process has created a moving and illuminating portrait of not only the hardship of survival but its beauty too. For, when life goes on, there is so much to live for.
