Whatever the Gods Do: a Memoir

Patti Miller helps people write their stories, but one summer, her own story takes over. She has been a second mother to ten-year-old Theo ever since his mother, Dina, died. Now he and his father are moving away to start a new life. To distract herself from his loss, she begins to fulfil a long-held secret desire to learn how to sing - to find her voice.

Through the chronicle of the singing lessons Patti takes the reader back to the beginning of her life with Theo - the fateful day when life changed irretrievably for Dina, the agonising months that followed and the delicate building of love and trust between the child and herself.

Resonating throughout with hope and love for life, 'Whatever The Gods Do' is a passionate and lyrical account of friendship and loss, of singing and storytelling, and of the universal quest to express one's own experience of being.