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250 pages, ebook
Published April 4, 2018
It astonished John that he could still be astonished by politicians’ ability to trivialise the serious and give import to the trivial. Rather than attend an important meeting that related to her portfolio, Blakely was more worried about what type of stuffed dog to get.
‘You’ve done nothing wrong,’ Gwen said in as soothing a voice as she could muster. ‘You’ve done nothing wrong and I’ve done nothing wrong. We let our hearts believe in men who were not worthy of them. They are the ones who are the villains here, not us.’
‘Surely you can understand that I love her.’ ‘No, I don’t,’ Cecily said. ‘You don’t lie like that to the woman you love. You don’t play games with the woman you love. You don’t deceive the woman you love in order to get your own way. Your love was selfish and that makes it wrong.
I thought I was a horrible person, who hated my child, who wasn't capable of being a mother. I thought I was unnatural. I thought there was something wrong with me and I hid it from everyone, even my husband, because I was scared that if they knew, they would desert me because who wants to be with someone not truly human?’