Walks on the Beach with Angie: A Father’s Story of Love
by Don Warner with Marly Cornell
Walks on the Beach with Angie: A Father’s Story of Love describes the author’s relationship with his beloved daughter, Angela, who had cystic fibrosis. Don Warner and his wife, Linda, did everything they could to give their only child immeasurable love and the fullest life possible, all the while carrying out an aggressive treatment regimen to fight her fatal disease. Until she was 19, this honor student and cheerleader with a radiant personality kept the secret of her illness from her friends and the boys she dated. Carrying out multiple daily therapies and treatments with a quiet grace, Angie never asked for or expected special attention or sympathy.
During the final 86 days of her life, as Angie lay in an intensive care unit on a ventilator, the Warners were surrounded by loved ones, and a supportive extended family of kindred spirits they met in the hospital “Family Room.” The devastating grief and loss that Warner and his wife experience prompts him to search for meaning in his daughter’s death and ignites a powerful desire to create a lasting legacy in her honor. Walks on the Beach with Angie is part of this legacy.
Read Reviews and Comments by Readers
“As a father who also lost a daughter to cystic fibrosis, I do not have to be reminded how terrible and sad the experience is. But Don Warner’s lovely memoir about his daughter, Angela, is a story that can teach us all something about love and courage. Walks on the Beach with Angie: A Father’s Story of Love is as unsparing in its account of how awful and painful the disease can be, as it is uplifting in describing the young woman’s valiant battle. Above all, it is a magnificent tribute to Angela and to her family who cared so and suffered so.”
— Frank Deford, author of Alex: The Life of a Child
“Walks on the Beach with Angie: A Father’s Story of Love is a story of love, hope, anguish, perseverance, grief, searing loss and transformation.”
— Richard A. Johnson, Ed.D., Ph.D.
“A new part of my research has been stimulated by Don Warner’s book.”
— From the Foreword by Warren J. Warwick, M.D.
