‘And when he used to build us those forts in the living room and we’d play pirates? You were Captain Zanne? Remember you used to wear that bandana? He got you that little telescope?’ Oh, God. My heart gives a painful lurch. Captain Zanne. I’d forgotten all about that. ‘Shiver me timbers!’ Dad used to yell, lifting me up on to his shoulders. ‘There be treasure, Cap’n Zanne!’
In the times I've read through FFH since I wrote it, for editing and promo and now this, it's this bit that makes my heart ache the most. For me, this is the saddest part of the whole book; the profound loss that underpins child abuse and domestic violence. This flash of ordinary, of what could have been, is so painful.
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