Love, Interrupted: Navigating Grief One Day at a Time by Simon Thomas

Former Blue Peter and Sky Sports footballer presenter Simon Thomas’s life was devasted when his wife Gemma died in 2017, aged just 40 years, just three days after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. Simon was left to bring up their young son Ethan on his own.

In the raw account of his life shortly before and after the death of his wife, Simon shares his heartache. At the time a member of Greyfriars Church in Reading, Simon shares how his grief is compounded by problems with anxiety, depression and alcohol.

One reviewer comments that “I am in the middle of this book and I keep telling myself ‘hold off until the end before you rave about it’ but I cannot because it is absolutely brilliant, it is honest, it is generous and it is so very very real.”

Gradually through the support of friends, family, his Church and the love of his son, Simon makes it to calmer waters.

In his book, he comments that “while no one can take away the biggest burden of all – the pain of losing a loved one – they can lighten some of the burden that accompanies it.”