5/20/2023 0 Comments Why not me book book review![]() ![]() Anger – grief's other half– has been Barbara's continuing element. And by the end of 2006, Nick Clarke was dead. The cancer was diagnosed at the end of 2005 – a sarcoma in the buttock that left the doctors with no choice but to amputate Nick's leg (an ordeal recounted in Nick and Barbara's prize-winning audio diary for Radio 4). Except that, just as one is starting to feel regret on her behalf, her tone changes and with sudden violence – as if ripping the holiday snap in two – she says she wants to "stop the fun, end the day, quell the laughter and scream at Nick, 'You've got cancer. It is an ordinary but affecting way of leading us into her memoir of the man she has loved and lost. ![]() B arbara Want is studying a snapshot of her late husband, the broadcaster Nick Clarke – presenter of The World at One – and their three-year-old twin sons. ![]()
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