Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

by Kate Atkinson

But she did because she was driven by something, only she didn’t know what it was but she was sure that if one day she could get everything finished then she’d be free of whatever it was that was driving her.

Theo never doubted for a moment that when he died he would be reunited with Laura, and, in his mind, it was just like The Railway Children—he would walk out of a fog and Laura would be there and she would say, “Daddy, my daddy.” It wasn’t that Theo believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.