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With and Without You

By: Kelsey Parker
Narrated by: Kelsey Bowden
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Summary

“They say the first year is the hardest.”

Kelsey Parker's world was turned upside down in the summer of 2020 when her husband Tom, singer in boyband The Wanted, was cruelly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.

Heavily pregnant with their second child and coping with her own heartache at losing her partner of 13 years, Kelsey remained a tower of strength and positivity for Tom during his darkest days. When traditional treatments stopped working, she spent hours researching alternative therapies to give her husband extra time with his young children Aurelia and Bodhi.

Hope came late in 2021 when Tom's tumor became stable, but sadly his condition quickly deteriorated, and on March 30, 2022, aged just 33, he died surrounded by his loyal wife, family, and friends.

With and Without You is her moving, deeply personal story of the first 12 months since Tom's tragic passing. An intimate diary of how she coped with a year of unwanted firsts–first birthdays, first Christmas, first Valentine's Day–all without the love of her life. It is the story of how she rebuilt her life, and bravely found a way to face the future. Since Tom's death, Kelsey has been an inspiration to many and a rock to the couple's children. She has sought to raise awareness of glioblastoma and has bravely campaigned for vital funds for more research into the disease. She has also found spirituality–following Tom's long held belief there is something greater than just one life.

With and Without You is not only a story of coping with unimaginable heartbreak and grief, but how your love for someone you've lost can be turned into something positive and bring hope and light into your life as you carry on your journey without them.

©2023 Kelsey Parker (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd
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Incredible

You are absolutely amazing young lady Kelsey Parker!! Powerful from start to finish I just couldn’t put it down. Wishing you and all your families the best. 🌟❤️

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Surprisingly Lightweight

A passingly interesting listen and works fairly well as a companion piece to Tom Parker’s autobiography. However there isn’t the level of depth required to make this a particularly engaging listen. There is a moment which highlighted to me the frustration of the audiobook; Kelsey discusses how Tom changed as a person after his awful diagnosis and his second born never experienced the same father as his first born. This to me felt a hugely significant and compelling subject to discuss but it is touched on and never developed. The audiobook also suffered from repetition; it has been poorly edited. I heard that the book was an amazingly open, raw account of grief but it feels not much more than you would read on social media posts for example. Disappointing.

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