About Eva

The most precious girl in the world entered my life in November 2008. From that moment, life as I knew it was perfect. Eva became baby sister to her big brother affectionately known as Wee Paddy, then 1-week shy of his 1st birthday. Fast forward to October 2012 when a scan at hospital led to the diagnosis of a rare brain tumour. Devastated with the diagnosis I went into adrenaline mode. My schedule was work, medical appointments, hospital, treatment, sleep, repeat.

I don’t believe I’ll ever forget the Sunday morning a few weeks into treatment when Eva’s hair came into her hand as she scratched her head. She looked up at me with those gorgeous blue eyes, the look of innocence that I believe only children possess - and with a gasp and surprised look on her face she asked me could I "... put it back in?”

At that moment I knew my life was changed forever and I would never be the same person again. I took the hair out of Eva’s hand and I sat her on the bed. Smiling at her through my heartbreak, I explained that some boys and girls have hair that goes on an adventure and this was “Eva’s hairs time to take an adventure of its own.” So, Eva’s hair now became known as ‘Hair’, a very real character in the family household!

The stark reality soon hit that there was very little available by way of children's literature which would help Eva to understand what was happening and why her hair was gone! So, my stories became very tall tales which Eva found very amusing, we loved that she could find comfort in the adventures of her Hair.