Who is Jessica?

Jessica Palmer was a Mum.

She died in June 2004, at 34 years old, of childbed fever. It was six days after the uncomplicated birth of her second child.

Jessica's story could save another Mum's life and prevent another family's heartache and pain; that is what Jessica would have wanted.

The story was published in the words of her husband, Ben, in the Daily Mail as the Saturday Essay on 17th March 2007, the day before Mother's Day:

For the love of Jessica: The widower robbed of his wife by NHS blunders

and the story was also told, shortly after the Inquest into Jessica's death, in the Sunday Telegraph:

'I remember following the ambulance, saying to the tail lights: Don't leave me, Jessica. Don't you leave me'
Sunday Telegraph, 4th December 2005

Friday's Child is a forthcoming book written by Jessica's husband, Ben. It tells the full heart breaking story of a mother's love and a family's loss. Friday's Child will be published in June 2008 by Virgin Books.