Love and loss: A poignant memoir of a man bringing up his boys alone
In the course of organising my wife’s funeral four years ago, I faced an intriguing dilemma. Magteld had died at 38 years old, 21 months after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and I was trying to put together a slideshow of her brief life. The problem was that our stock of photographs was dominated by the last few years, because people start taking a lot more pictures once they acquire a digital camera. This technological shift transformed the way we recorded our lives – instead of carefully crafting pictures that reflected the expense and effort of developing film, we could now simply shoot on the move and erase the failures. The only restriction was the camera’s memory.
