Katherine Zappone: I stare into the future, Ann Louise is no longer here — I am heartbroken

Katherine Zappone’s new memoir is a story of enduring love between two trailblazing women. Here she writes about the loss of her beloved wife Ann Louise Gilligan

Katherine Zappone in St Stephen's Green. Photograph Moya Nolan

I glance out the study window of The Shanty, my home in the Dublin Mountains. 

August, my golden retriever, lies on the floor close to my desk. She sleeps quietly in the emptiness of the house.