She talks about the "little tiny dragon Errol".
She will say "dragon needs her socks on". She calls him "Mister Patchett" because she has trouble with that R. She gets me to turn to the inside cover to look at the picture of the "man". I'm reading Guards! Guards! to my 2-year old right now, a section each night. What is important is that we live, and while we live some of us do extraordinary things. Everyone who is born dies, and there's an infinite number of potential people who are never born. What Terry Pratchett has given to us will live longer than any person. I think we gained something incredible over a short time. Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is a progressive degenerative condition involving the loss and dysfunction of brain cells, particularly at the back (posterior) of the brain. We ask that the family are left undisturbed at this distressing time.Īll enquiries: Lynsey Dalladay, Publicist T: 0208 2316793 M: 07920 712543Ī Just Giving page donating to the Research Institute to the Care of Older People (RICE) has been set up in his memory: ġ. He completed his last book, a new Discworld novel, in the summer of 2014, before succumbing to the final stages of the disease. Diagnosed with PCA1 in 2007, he battled the progressive disease with his trademark determination and creativity, and continued to write. Terry passed away in his home, with his cat sleeping on his bed surrounded by his family on 12th March 2015. My sympathies go out to Terry's wife Lyn, their daughter Rhianna, to his close friend Rob Wilkins, and to all closest to him." His legacy will endure for decades to come. Over the last few years, it was his writing that sustained him. Terry faced his Alzheimer's disease (an 'embuggerance', as he called it) publicly and bravely. As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize this world: he did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention. In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him.
The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds. "I was deeply saddened to learn that Sir Terry Pratchett has died. Larry Finlay, MD at Transworld Publishers:
It is with immeasurable sadness that we announce that author Sir Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66. If the site goes down again, here’s the text:
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