'Painted Love Letters' was published in 2002.

"And bigger than all of that, I knew that sometimes you had to do the impossible like eat oysters or go shopping even when you could hardly breathe because that is what people did when they truly loved one another and it had nothing to do with freckles or anklebones or lipstick."
Dave is dying.
Chrissie, Mum, Nan, and Badger are going to be left behind.
Because sometimes life is like that.

 

'Painted Love Letters' was Catherine's first prose novel. If you'd like to know more about 'Painted Love Letters', send Catherine an email through the Visitor's Book, and she'll post her answer on this page.