By My Side (by Alice Peterson)

I have been enjoying and appreciating afresh the novels by Alice Peterson, re-reading after a decade or so. She’s an excellent writer with a good sense of characterisation and realistic dialogue, and she tells stories using unusual scenarios, sometimes: typically involving people with either physical or mental disabilities. 

I first read ‘By my side’ back in 2013, so a little less than eight years ago, but I’d almost entirely forgotten what it was about. I did remember some of it, as I read ...