The Attic Child

by Lola Jaye

Sir Richard regularly pressed on me the importance of England being everything that was right about a country, and yet at the same time lent itself to so many outside influences. Indeed, wasn’t Sir Richard by definition an explorer? If England was so great, then surely there would not be a need to explore . . .

It was as if they believed my life to have started the day I stepped off a ship and landed in England!