The memory of an “incredible” mother who succumbed to cervical cancer will live on when her husband turns her memoirs into a book for their four-year-old daughter.

Brave Kirsty Deakin, of Keighley, died this month aged just 25 following a battle with the killer disease.

But while she was being cared for by nurses at Manorlands hospice in Oxenhope, Keighley, Mrs Deakin wrote a memoir of her life, which husband Steve now plans to use as the basis for a glossy book for her loving daughter Abby to remember her mum.

Mr Deacon, of Long Lee, said: “It started as a letter but is now 36 pages long and we are getting it made into a glossy book for Abby to read.”

Paying tribute to his late wife, Mr Deakin said: “She was quite an incredible woman. If you met Kirsty once, you were stuck with her! She never moaned once while she was ill. People would be really worried about her, and she was asking how they were.”

Mrs Deakin, who previously lived in Glusburn, had been fighting cervical cancer after being diagnosed in February last year. She died on June 7.

More than 300 people attended her funeral service at Keighley Parish Shared Church on June 19 and donated more than £1,300 for Manorlands hospice. Mr Deakin said the high attendance was a tribute to the effect Kirsty had on everyone who met her.

Soon after having been diagnosed with the disease, she and Steven took Abby to Disneyland Paris where the little girl was treated “like a princess,” he said.

The trip also served as a honeymoon after the couple brought forward their wedding. Staff at Keighley jewellers Herbert Brown raised £5,000 to send them on a five-day trip and they stayed at the resort’s palace-themed hotel.

Mr Deakin said: “It was just brilliant – we did everything we wanted to. Abby did the princess makeover for a day and we had dinner with the princesses.

“It was really nice. We were really happy we did the trip.”