Kate Boydell was widowed in 1998 after nine years of marriage to her beloved husband Charlie, who died of heart failure at the age of 37. Kate has worked in television for the last 22 years and is currently working as a freelance television editor. She has recently appeared on ITV's This Morning, BBC Radio's Five Live and Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Kate is now 40 and lives in Devon with her two daughters. She is the author of the highly popular merrywidow website for young widows: www merrywidow.me.uk.
'She neither shies away from nor glorifies the realities of dealing with the death of a partner, instead she shares all the things she wishes she'd been told when he died with sensitivity and, above all, honesty' Easy Living