'It was obvious something had gone terribly wrong': In her first interview since Dr Michael Mosley's death, his widow Clare recounts the desperate search
There is a serenity about Dr Clare Bailey Mosley's grief that startles me. A year after her adored husband Michael died while walking in searing heat on the rocky outcrop of a small Greek island – perhaps of heatstroke, perhaps of a heart attack; 'What does it matter?' she asks, simply – there is no rage, no recrimination, no litany of 'what ifs?'
You might expect her to be tortured by the random cruelty of this sudden, tragic loss.
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