My mum died aged 39, when I was just ten years old. First, she fought breast cancer, but it was ultimately a brain tumour that bought her life to a premature end.

How old was Sarah Beeny when she had her first child?

However, the memory of the day it happened is still all-too vivid for Sarah, 38. “My oldest, Billy, was only eight months old at the time and I was 10 weeks pregnant when I had the miscarriage,” she recalls.