# Source note — Angel Willard / Fighting to Come Home

**Publication:** NewsForBC.com  
**Date:** 2026-07-13  
**Article slug:** `bc-author-angel-willard-fighting-to-come-home-memoir.html`  
**Lead URL:** `https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1bbxzmmmJb/?mibextid=wwXIfr`  
**Book:** *Fighting to Come Home: A Memoir of Becoming*  
**Author:** Angel Willard  
**Evidence label:** local/books/human-interest source card; not an independent verification of memoir events.

## Captured materials

- Facebook post/browser metadata: `facebook.html`, `capture-summary.json`
- Facebook book-cover image: `facebook-book-cover.jpg`
- Amazon paperback page capture: `amazon_paperback.html`
- Amazon Kindle page capture: `amazon_kindle.html`

## What is confirmed

- The Facebook post from Jeff Angel Doucet says the memoir *Fighting to Come Home* is finished and published and quotes: “I wasn’t fighting to come home to a place. I was fighting to come home to myself.”
- The Facebook image/cover identifies the title as *Fighting to Come Home*, marks it as “A true story of trauma, survival and motherhood,” and names the author as Angel Willard.
- Amazon.ca has a paperback listing: `https://www.amazon.ca/Fighting-come-home-memoir-becoming/dp/B0H8L4FTTF`
- Amazon.ca has a Kindle edition listing: `https://www.amazon.ca/Fighting-come-home-memoir-becoming-ebook/dp/B0H8LGP3PV`
- Amazon's product page lists: paperback price $12.99, print length 318 pages, publication date July 12, 2026, publisher Independently published, ISBN-13 979-8186911647, English language.
- Amazon's author bio says Angel Willard is a Canadian author from a small town in British Columbia and describes her writing as grounded in lived experience after trauma, injury, litigation and recovery.

## What is not verified

- NewsForBC did not independently verify the events described in the memoir or the full contents of the book.
- Search results outside Amazon/Open Library were limited at capture time; Open Library returned no record for the title at the time of this review.
- The Facebook video itself was available only to registered Facebook users via `yt-dlp`; browser metadata/caption and the image were captured instead.

## Editorial handling

This is a B.C. local-author / book-link story. It should link readers to the book, preserve the author’s framing, and avoid treating memoir claims as adjudicated facts. Use “Amazon page says,” “Facebook post says,” and “cover text describes” where appropriate.