The Friend

by Teresa Driscoll

‘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.

some children are grown in their mummy’s tummies. And some are grown in their hearts.

I really thought on that terrible train journey home that the biggest shock and most important lesson was realising what other people are truly capable of. 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.