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A Burwash Common woman who helps run a bereavement support group has published a book about her daughter, who died from a brain tumour.

Jan Wright hopes her collection of artwork, articles, letters, photographs and tributes will help others coping with the death of a child.

Her daughter, Emma MacDonagh, née Mabbutt, was deputy head girl at Steyning Grammar School and a Sunday school teacher at St Andrew’s Church in Steyning.

She has been remembered as a remarkable person who left a trail of happiness wherever she went, having lived with a brain tumour from the age of 11.

Jan Wright with her book, Emma’s Endurance

Emma died in Australia in August 2005 and Jan has found poetry has helped her a great deal over the years. Her book, Emma’s Endurance, is described as ‘a mother’s journey through her child’s terminal illness, showing her own recovery through poems’.

Jan self-published the paperback and it is now available on Amazon, priced £9.95.

She said: “I am hoping that my book on Emma could help others coping with the death of a child. Everyone has their own journey and at times will cling to anything. We did. I hope to show that there is life after death for the living.

Mum publishes book about her daughter to help others coping with the death of a child