Marion Mainstone

, my beautiful, mad, musical, clever, text-crazy, incurable romanticschool friend who lived life at 100 mph and felt everything so deeply. A hugely talented musician who could have chosen to be a famous concert pianist or composer but devoted her life to teaching children to love music as much as she did, even though she was probably too sensitive for the school system. Marion was stolen from us suddenly late last year when a bug picked up on her honeymoon turned into untreatable pneumonia, because typical Marion she tried to soldier on regardless of her pain. In her honour her family chose the charity Music Therapy Works, a West Midlands Charity (Marion went to university and worked in the Midlands) which aims to help provide musical therapy and communication aids to individuals, groups and communities in challenging situations.