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On 20th July 2013 15-year-old Oxford schoolgirl Martha Fernback died suddenly after swallowing half a gram of MDMA powder, more widely known as ecstasy. Within hours, her mother, Anne-Marie Cockburn, began to write down her feelings as a way to channel her shock and try to make sense of the tragic loss of her only child. This revealing, emotional and ultimately uplifting book shows how she used the art of writing, combined with determined self-belief, to guide her during this terrible time.