A Life Reimagined: The Sunday Times Bestselling Memoir on Grief and a Journey of Healing

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The top ten Sunday Times Bestseller Heartfelt and honest, A Life Reimagined is an emotional memoir of love, loss and life after tragedy from beloved actress Jill Halfpenny. When Jill was four, her father died. He went to play his weekly game of five-a-side football, had a heart attack and never came home. In 2017, in cruelly similar circumstances, Jill's partner Matt went to a gym class, suffered a cardiac arrest and never came home. These two tragic events frame Jill's story in A Life Reimagined as she explores how she dealt with profound grief as a child and teenager and then later as a partner and mother. With vulnerability and honesty Jill shares the invaluable lessons she's learned from grief and how these lesson have helped her find a path back to found back to joy. 'Profoundly moving' - Woman's Weekly

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Profoundly moving * Woman's Weekly *
Honest, brave and of course devastating -- Donna Air

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Jill Halfpenny is one of the most recognized and beloved faces on British television, having burst onto the scene in 1989 as Nicola Dobson in Byker Grove. Since then, she has gone on to star in Coronation Street, EastEnders, Waterloo Road, Babylon, Three Girls, The Drowning, The Holiday and The Long Shadow. Jill also won the second series of Strictly Come Dancing and was crowned 'Champion of Champions' in 2004. Jill lives in Newcastle with her son.