Sam & Me and the Hard Pear Tree

Sometimes you need to be completely broken to find the most powerful part of yourself.

A gloriously warm summer afternoon in February 2013 suddenly turned into a nightmare from which there was no escape and no respite. In one horrifying moment – the moment every mother dreads – Jami Yeats knew her life would never be the same again. When the ambulance took young Sam away there was still the tiniest sign of life. But Jami knew from the first scream that her baby was gone.

That is where this ...