'Dad's words when I killed my baby brother haunted me - but I've forgiven myself now'

mirror.co.uk:

With her warm blue eyes, broad smile and dazzling confidence, Linda Olson seems like a woman who has it all. At 68, the happily married grandmother of five has written best-selling motivational books and has even delivered a prestigious TED Talk.

But for more than four decades, Linda carried the deepest pain imaginable. Back in September 1966, Linda was 14 and growing up with four siblings on her parents’ farm in the Canadian Prairies. ‘Life was simple but good,’ explains Linda. ‘Our family of seven knew first hand that if you don’t work, you don’t eat. 'Mum and Dad expected all of us to muck in – my oldest sister Violet, 18, me, the middle ones Leonard, 12, and Vera, eight – and there was the family baby, Billy, two.