About the Author

Audrey Jenkinson was starring in the BBC Television drama series Trainer when she put her acting career on hold and returned home to Edinburgh to care for her parents. Following their deaths, she lived on houseboats in New York and Henley before returning to research and write her book Past Caring, a collection of moving testimonies from carers coming to terms with life after caring. She has since set up a role-play company On a Role, supplying professional actors with strong improvisation skills for a variety of training situations. Audrey Jenkinson is a Millennium Fellow

Reviews

"With Jenkinson's positive approach to picking up the pieces post-caring, she is surely on the road to becoming a life coach." The Guardian "A remarkably candid book." Daily Mail