Tuesday's Child

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Caoimhe today is as beautiful, as unblemished, as she was at the hour of her birth, before she was stamped and branded. She is bigger than any label. When I look at her I am as in love with her as always...there are times when I see her and I still catch my breath; the feeling is so intense it is painful. That pain, I know now, belongs to love, to grief, to loss, to the disappointment of mortality, and it will never go away. But I don t want it to. Sadness is not the worst thing I can feel. When journalist Kathy Evans wrote what was to become an award-winning series of articles about the birth of her third child, Caoimhe (pronounced Keeva), she was inundated with responses - not just from other parents of disabled children but also from parents-to-be, relatives, teachers, doctors and many others who urged her to keep writing because they wanted to know more. The result is a beautiful and intensely moving account of life with Caoimhe that goes beyond memoir to explore wider concerns of prejudice and the ethics of the cutting-edge science of genetics. Kathy and her partner had spent months agonising over whether to have a third child, then, at thirty-five, Kathy decided it wo

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Born in North Wales, Kathy Evans worked as a journalist in England and Ireland before moving to Melbourne in 1995, where she was a senior feature writer for The Age. Currently she lives in Ireland with her husband and three children.