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  • What Matters Now

  • A Memoir of Hope and Finding a Way Through the Dark
  • By: Gareth O'Callaghan
  • Narrated by: Gareth O'Callaghan
  • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Summary

From the number-one best-selling author comes his powerful memoir.

Gareth O'Callaghan is one of Irish radio's most popular and familiar voices. In 2018, after receiving a life-changing diagnosis, he retired from full-time work and gave up the career in radio that he had loved for decades.

Here, in this deeply personal memoir, he tells his story of love and hope. From the moments after his doctor uttered the words multiple system atrophy - a neurological disease that is both progressive and incurable, and ultimately carries a fatal prognosis - to how, drawing on inner reserves and determination, he pulled himself from the darkness to come to terms with a new way of living.

With his trademark empathy, insight and honesty, he looks at how, no matter what the circumstances, we can choose how we live and that every life must be lived to the fullest.

For me, this is not a choice. It's all I want, namely a full and loving life that I strive to choose every day over everything else - considering that maybe the big odds are heavily stacked against that. But I don't care what the odds might be; I'll keep defying them for as long as I can keep fighting and living.

©2021 Gareth O'Callaghan (P)2021 Hachette Books Ireland
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A very Grounding Story

Fabulous story told by Gareth himself on his life these past few years with his diagnoses of the neurological disease. MSA which I never heard of before. It is sad, very honest and very inspirational for any person to read. Very uplifting as he encourages us back to Nature with his account of how beneficial it is to our wellbeing. I hope he has many happy years ahead of him with his wife Paula and their families and friends., A true inspiration you are Gareth.

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Fantastic

Thank you Gareth for writing such an amazing book. Beautifully written and read. Poignant, sad, thought provoking. Thank you. Everyone should experience your book. It's five stars from me.

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