Meanwhile, Kate appeared in the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2007, lasting seven weeks and finishing in 8th place with professional partner Anton du Beke. What an amazing book and what an amazing woman who I saw for years on tv and only recently realised how amazingly strong. With photos on the back of the book, and in the middle - you can’t help but feel empathetic to Kate - even though 99. At the time of Derek’s admission and Kate telling him, he was having his car tyre changed, and had since confessed he feels sick every time he passes the place.

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Kate Garraway is a British TV and radio presenter and journalist and the author of The Power of Hope. This is a very emotional account of the past year (and a bit), where Kate talks about how the power of Hope helped her and her family.The reader is immersed in the roller-coaster of emotions experienced by Kate and her children, but the incredibly strong bonds or love between them have helped them cope and cling onto hope. I really like Kate Garraway and am glad that I listened to, rather than read, her tell her story of their family's struggle through covid and the devastating effects it has had on her husband, Derek.

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Kate has written a heart tugging story that touched so many lives, and still continues to touch to this day. It is an honest account of the turmoil she went through during that eventful period in March 2020 and still continues to go through each and every day with her husband Derek. In this case she recounts little moments like those she had shared with her daughter and you can feel the love and humour resonating through. Covid has affected us all, and I think by Kate writing this book she is encouraging others to speak out about their experience.

I wish Kate and her family the best of luck and my thoughts are with them as the family deals with the repercussions of the illness on Derek and trying to get back to some form of normality in their day to day lives. Kate had and still has 'Hope' that all will be right for Derek and that he will make the best recovery that he can, as he continues on what is going to be an extremely long and hard journey into the future.

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He sounded like a very charismatic, northerner who enjoyed his life to the full with a very witty mind of intrigue. Kate recounts how her husband, Derek was rushed into hospital suffering fromCovid and his progress over the last 12 months. Not easy to read all the pain and sadness but as Kate says often throughout the book, we are all dealing with Covid in some way. I found this a very insightful look into the life that Kate Garraway, her husband Derek Draper and their two children found themselves in following him having contracted Covid-19 and how it has impacted on them. Having followed Kate Garraway for a long time, I have been watching in shock, disbelief and sadness of how badly her husband Derek has been left damaged from the after effects of long Covid.Kate had to learn what all the medical terminology was, what the future may hold for her husband, and more importantly whether Kate could continue to be there for her children as well as her husband.