The Friend

by Teresa Driscoll

Houses breed the delusion of more comfort indoors than out. And yet – see. Just look how wrong they are. How much they miss.

‘People tell you to try not to think about it. Your own instinct is not to think about it. But that doesn’t work,’ she said. ‘The trick is to learn to cope with thinking about it. To accept how truly awful it was.

But – turns out there is a much greater and more chilling shock. Learning – in the face of evil and in the name of love – what you are capable of yourself.