What a Difference a Day Makes: I was given a second chance after a stroke at 47

Cauvery Madhavan’s latest book is The Inheritance - she’s at the West Cork Literary Festival tomorrow at 11.20am in Bantry Bookshop.

Cauvery Madhavan: "My stroke 16 years ago was totally unexpected. I was 47, literally had zero symptoms of anything untoward."

My stroke 16 years ago was totally unexpected. I was 47, literally had zero symptoms of anything untoward.

We were in the house in Glengarriff, Co Cork — quite isolated, inaccessible, up a mountain boreen. My husband Prakash and I had been there together a week.