“And I’ve written about him, and I’ve talked on the radio about him. “I’ve spoken about Henry before,” he says, reclining now on a couch. A Heart That Works is meant to reach other bereaved parents, with whom he spends a lot of time. Henry died in January 2018, on Delaney’s 41st birthday. We meet at an east London studio, where he is having his portrait taken, to discuss his book, and the many tragedies it records: the discovery of a brain tumour the “size of an apple” in Henry’s one-year-old head the surgery that removed it, but which also left Henry severely disabled (“My beautiful fucked-up boy,” Delaney writes) the return of the tumour a year or so later, when Henry was living at home again, learning immeasurably despite hindrance, the youngest member of a riotous gang of Delaney brothers. “And that would be fucking great.”ĭelaney, who is best known for co-writing and starring in the Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe, is a tall man with a bright, winning smile and a comfortable, easy manner. “We would share one more thing together,” he writes in A Heart That Works, a memoir that charts Henry’s illness and death, and the period of grief thereafter. If Delaney were to die here, in a central London swimming pool, in some curious scuba accident, well, that would be OK. Underwater, he thought of Henry, and of how much closer to him he felt 12ft below the surface. Before students submerged, an instructor listed all the things that could go wrong, and warned that at least a few of them would panic.
The course took place in a pool in Soho, London. N ot long after the death of his son, Henry, the American comedian Rob Delaney attended a scuba-diving course with his wife, Leah.
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