Great news. Yesterday we subbed the final version of the final story to go into the Memories book. That makes for twelve ‘memories’, and the last piece was written by Gordon Kirk up in Scotland. His story tells the tale of how he discovered he had cancer six weeks after the birth of his daughter – a fraught and emotional experience. We don’t want to say too much about it, hoping that you will want to read the story when the book is finally published, but suffice to say that Gordon has done a great job talking about a difficult time in his life. Another interesting piece to the puzzle is that we discovered Gordon and his story through Maggie’s as he has benefitted from the good work the charity does and made good friends with other Maggie’s visitors while he was being treated. Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres will be the beneficiary of sales of the Memories book – find out more about what they do here.

Now, our job is to find more designers and illustrators to create their own visual responses to Gordon Kirk’s story, as well as the 11 other stories in the book.