What would you do if a stranger told you your son was going to die? Silas is ten years old when the headaches start When the diagnosis arrives his parents are told they have until Christmas maybe & so begins Sarah Pullen's battle to save her son against doubting doctors & insurmountable odds This story about love & loss traces her family's journey from that first day at the hospital battling a tumour they named Bob' through Silas's death & beyond This profoundly moving & honest account shows that it is possible to find the strength for a journey that no mother should ever go on; that it is possible to find a new way to live even when death is knocking on the door It is about confronting grief
- raw ugly incomprehensible grief It is a book about wrapping a small boy in love but still letting him get grubby knees It is about learning to savour every moment of the here & now yet also learning to let go At its heart A Mighty Boy is a story of the love between a mother & a son It is a book about seizing the moment & somehow managing to survive the death of a child But most of all it is a book about a small mighty smiling boy