Our Last Steps is the memoir of Danielle Elm, written in memory of her daughter Darcy-May and in honour of the community, family, and sheer human will that carried her back from the edge. Danielle grew up in Swanage, Dorset — a tight-knit seaside town where her family was woven into the fabric of the place through her father's plumbing business, her mother Mandy's work with the carnival, and Danielle's own years as an entertainer, a daughter, and eventually a wife and mother. In October 2018, on a drive to Wales for a family visit, a car crash killed four-year-old Darcy-May and left Danielle in a coma with a catastrophic brain injury and a spinal cord injury at T3/4/5 — paralysed from the chest down. Her husband Dan survived with a shattered pelvis. Told with striking directness and dark humour as well as profound grief, the book moves through Darcy's life and their last day together, the long months of ICU and spinal rehabilitation, the grief of missing her daughter's funeral from a hospital bed, and the slow, painful, extraordinary work of rebuilding a life. It is also a story of surrogacy, growing a family again, acceptance, and love — and of a community that never stopped showing up. All proceeds are donated to 2Wish and Swanage Carnival. This book, like Danielle herself, refuses to be diminished.