Fifty Miles with my Dad: A journey on the Suffolk coast

A ten-year-old girl's charity challenge led to her calling in medicine. The memoir recounts the parent-child journey, set amid the cultural and natural heritage of a beautiful part of the world. The trek was prompted by bereavement and led to new depths of conversation between father and daughter. They raised enough for a permanent endowment, giving the girl a role in selecting local charities and allowing her to see their work firsthand. The book is a celebration of quality time and philanthropy's rewards.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 07 April 2020
Publisher: Sarnia House LLP

This is the true story of how a ten-year-old girl's charity challenge led her through young philanthropy to a calling in medicine. Recalled by the girl as a young woman, it is a light-hearted but poignant memoir of a parent-child journey set amid the cultural and natural heritage of a beautiful part of the world. May gives a moving account of a trek prompted initially by bereavement. Clashes of attitudes and interests give the dialogue a playful vein; but as the miles go by, often with no other person in sight, father and daughter find new depths of conversation. Relics of war prompt her to ask of past generations, whose legacies he tries to convey; and as she reconnects him with childhood, its innocence and imagination, both see their worlds from new perspectives. Having made front-page news, their venture bears lasting fruit. She raises enough for a permanent endowment providing grants from its income, giving her a role in selecting local charities, and allowing her to see their work at first hand. As a budding musician, she gains insight into the therapy that music can bring, and while still at school, she becomes a recorded composer; meanwhile, seeing different forms of disability and treatment, she learns what fulfillment can be gained from making a difference. Warmly received as an enchanting and inspirational story, 'Fifty Miles with my Dad' is a celebration of quality time and of rewards from philanthropy that are open to all.

This is the true story of how a ten-year-old girl's charity challenge led her through young philanthropy to a calling in medicine. Recalled by the girl as a young woman, it is a light-hearted but poignant memoir of a parent-child journey set amid the cultural and natural heritage of a beautiful part of the world. May gives a moving account of a trek prompted initially by bereavement. Clashes of attitudes and interests give the dialogue a playful vein; but as the miles go by, often with no other person in sight, father and daughter find new depths of conversation. Relics of war prompt her to ask of past generations, whose legacies he tries to convey; and as she reconnects him with childhood, its innocence and imagination, both see their worlds from new perspectives. Having made front-page news, their venture bears lasting fruit. She raises enough for a permanent endowment providing grants from its income, giving her a role in selecting local charities, and allowing her to see their work at first hand. As a budding musician, she gains insight into the therapy that music can bring, and while still at school, she becomes a recorded composer; meanwhile, seeing different forms of disability and treatment, she learns what fulfillment can be gained from making a difference. Warmly received as an enchanting and inspirational story, 'Fifty Miles with my Dad' is a celebration of quality time and of rewards from philanthropy that are open to all.

Weight: 542g
Dimension: 163 x 239 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781916245006