Book extract: What Matters Now

In this extract from his new memoir What Matters Now, broadcaster and author Gareth O’Callaghan looks back to 2019 and the happiness he shared with his partner Paula, even as they faced into a future made torturous and uncertain by the news that O’Callaghan was suffering from a rare neurological illness called multiple system atrophy

Gareth O’Callaghan and his partner Paula Delaney who has supported him through his diagnosis. Picture: John Allen