Making Toast Review

It is only after her premature death that Amy’s parents fully appreciate the extent of the selflessness that shaped her life. Surrounded by gentle husband, an inexorable toddler and two other young children, Amy was fulfilled: her life was complete. Making Toast reveals how she was busy, too busy to give more than a passing awareness to fluttering of the caged bird that was attempting to escape from her chest. Until, that is, Amy collapsed and died suddenly from an undiagnosed asymptomatic heart condition, leaving behind her precious family at a time when they needed her care the most. Making Toast describes the aftermath: how Amy’s parents managed to calm the maelstrom threatening to engulf the young family and transform it into mundane tranquility.

The children were young and, in an attempt to fit into her daughter’s footsteps, Making Toast reveals how Amy’s mother took the place of surrogate mum to the young family. Amy’s parents moved in to help Amy’s bereaved and bewildered husband care for the three young children mourning the loss of their mother. Making Toast explains that Jessica was just six at the time she lost her mother; Sammy was four and little James was little more than a baby at 12 months old.

Making Toast could sound maudlin and become morose, but it doesn’t. Making Toast focuses on the everyday life that surrounds normality for young children and gradually the force of Amy’s personality shines through and reveals the strength of character that neither of her parents had been fully aware of during her lifetime. There is nothing mawkish about this affectionate chronicle that is unfolded in Making Toast.

Despite the poignant grief there is a chasm left that needs to be filled and who better to step into the breach than Amy’s parents? Making Toast chronicles the often humorous accounts of caring for three young and very lively children in the abyss left by the loss of their mother. Making Toast reveals day-by-day events that characterise the kinds of lives everybody lives, to a greater or lesser extent, behind closed doors. Making Toast is the story of carrying on, of picking up the unravelled threads of life and attempting to hold everything together for the sake of the children.

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