A Heart That Works: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Please note: when the National Theatre building is closed (on Sundays, and on days without performances) there is no step-free access from the car park. Complemented by an array of revealing personal photographs, the narrative alternates between heartfelt nostalgia about the seedier side of Manhattan’s go-go scene and funny quips about her unconventional stage performances. Humor may provide momentary respite, but what keeps this family afloat throughout the long months of Henry’s illness, hospitalizations and surgeries is their devotion to one another.

Ted Cruz) that led her to coveted White House internships and eventual positions in the Office of Legislative Affairs and with Meadows. A Heart That Works is a brilliant telling of his son's short life from birth, to cancer diagnosis, through treatment, and ultimately his death.He bites his tongue to keep himself from forcing acquaintances to picture the deaths of their own children. Delaney is no stranger to balancing grief and humor, and it shows in this heartbreaking yet often darkly funny recounting of how he lost his third son, Henry, to brain cancer.

After the show took off, Delaney and his family stayed; in the years since, he’s become a British household name.He is bitter to the point that he appears to have no empathy for anyone else who has a loss, especially if that person is elderly. But the sickness persisted and, after a series of tests (and several misdiagnoses), Henry was found to have a large tumour near his brain stem.