“When you get that knock on the door , it throws everything up in the air,” says Jane Harris, 70, a therapist from Devon. “And where it all comes back down may be very different.”

In 2011 Harris was living in Stroud in Gloucestershire, with her husband Jimmy Edmonds, a film editor. They were feeling ready to relax into the next stage of life, their three children having left home and embarked on their own adult lives. But that “knock on the door” was to tell the couple that their son, Josh, had been killed in a road accident in Vietnam, while on a six-month tour of Asia. He was 22.

Nearly 15 years on, Harris says the ripple effects of the sudden and unexpected loss of their son have been profound. “It’s changed the whole family and we’ve all had to find a way into new lives ,” she sa

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