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A Heart That Works: Harrowing journey through the visceral grief of losing a small child
Writer-actor Rob Delaney’s son died aged two and a half after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, here he describes the process of trying to come to terms with his illness and ultimately his death
Rob Delaney’s life got torpedoed just as he was absorbing one of the best moments of his career. In 2016, the American writer-actor and his Irish collaborator Sharon Horgan won a Bafta for their sitcom Catastrophe. The next day, a GP told him that his one-year-old son Henry might have a brain tumour.
The toddler was vomiting regularly and losing weight. After an MRI confirmed he had cancer, a surgeon removed a tumour the size ...
