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Marie Fleming was born and raised in Donegal. She left school early and became a mother at just sixteen, before returning to college in her twenties where she later gained her MBA. In her mid thirties, she was diagnosed with MS, which led her to take a landmark case, years later in 2010, against the Irish State to lift the ban on assisted suicide. Although she lost her case, she gained a huge groundswell of public support and brought the 'right to die' issue into the forefront of public debate. Marie had two grown up children and lived in Woodenbridge, County Wicklow, with her partner and carer, Tom. Marie died from MS in December 2013.
Remarkable * Irish Times * There are books that should be written and books that need to be written and then there are books like An Act of Love, that push and fight their way out into the world against all the odds -- Anne Enright * Irish Independent * Written in simple and forthright prose, [An Act of Love] depicts a formidable character who may have ultimately lost her legal battle but could count herself as a survivor in the truest sense of that word... Brave and touching * Sunday Business Post * An unflinching account of the relentless march of a dreadful disease...compelling * Irish Mail on Sunday *
