More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
‘I want you to know that I’ve always loved you. I never stopped, even for a second. You have to believe that. You need to know that I’ve always loved you even though you were never really mine to love.’
Not her real dad?
‘There’s no need.’ Clare’s words snap at the air. ‘I want to.’ ‘Laura and I have got it all in hand, haven’t we?’ ‘Well, actually—’ ‘We’ll be fine.
Why is Claire so cold to her
‘You’re a good girl. Whatever anyone says, we brought you up well, Bill and me. No one can ever take that away.’
Adopted?? Stolen baby?
She hears the defensiveness in her voice, does not know where it is coming from.
Has always been defensive/protective against Elsa
‘Put the . . . the hot water jug on, there’s a good girl. I’ll have . . . what I always have.’
Loss of motor/cognitive skills and decision making
has asked her to wake him for the early morning feed so that she can have a lie-in.
Umm... no actually
She tells herself it is just the darkness playing tricks on her, that there is nothing to worry about, that he is just sleeping, and yet she runs to turn on the light, flicking the switch, rushing back to the crib.
She so desperately wants him to be alive and for her eyes to be tricking her
