Wheeling Through Sand

Wheeling Through Sand traces three generations of mothers and children, revealing how love, resilience and changing social attitudes towards disability shape a family’s journey.

Mabel Howe longed to be the mother her children deserved, but life with an unreliable husband kept her forever on the move. In the spaces where the care of her daughter fell short, others stepped in: a steadfast older sister, a quietly protective aunt, and strangers whose unexpected kindness helped a young girl grow strong.

This is a story of hardship transformed into hope – a testament to the many forms mothering can take and the strength that rises from it. Now a mother and grandmother herself, Catherine Grant writes with clarity, compassion and gratitude, offering a deeply personal celebration of the woman who shaped her life in ways she only came to understand years later.