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Limehouse prison is, as you might imagine, horrible.
Kelly is a woman who likes to ‘chat’.
Cell mate
first day here fourteen long months ago,
How long MC has been in prison
Kelly decided that I was her new best friend, and worse, a trophy cellmate.
the Morton murderer can.
MC
The justice system in this country is a joke, and there is nothing which illustrates that more than this one sentence: I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail for a murder I did not commit.
After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of 28, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily carried on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.
MC
Kathleen’s Facebook page (the poor love has a public account,
Target?
Let me be clear here. I have no idea what I am doing. I’m 24, I’ve been thinking about how to best avenge my mother for many years now, and this is the biggest step I’ve taken so far.
Maybe that’s why I’m rushing this big move, desperate to prove to myself that I’ve made inroads and can do what I’ve been saying I will since I was 13.
As I fix my wig and apply my makeup, I feel as though I’m getting ready for a brilliant date, and not at all like I’m on the way to kill my grandparents.
That car is either a sign that I am stupidly chaotic and should postpone my plans, or it was a little gift from some unknown deity. Let’s see which!
Lol
I decided long ago that Kathleen and Jeremy Artemis would be the first to leave us.
Grandparents
father Simon
Backstory
my mother’s friend Helene
Backstory
Poor dead Marie.
Backstory
They knew about me from the start, Helene explained, when their ‘poor’ son turned up unexpectedly late one night and, pacing the living room, confessed that he’d got into some trouble. According to Jeremy, who did most of the talking while Kathleen sat rigidly on the sofa sipping a large gin and tonic, Simon had asked how he should tell his wife, Janine, and told his father that some financial provision would have to be made for me.
All these names!!!
Grace,
mc???
Latimers
Foster family ?
And God looks exasperated (and why wouldn’t he, this man is an idiot),
Lol
And unlike that stupid man in the fable, I fully intend to take advantage of them all.
Love her chaos
‘All human wisdom is contained in these two words, “Wait and Hope”.’
I was born twenty-eight years ago, at the Whittington hospital, the only daughter of Marie Bernard, a young Frenchwoman who had been living in London for three years before falling pregnant with me.
Backstory
Marie met my father in 1991. He was gone before I was born.
And even then, I remember understanding so clearly, that something very wrong had been done to Marie and me.
Ugh. That's sad.
My grandmother said hello to me, then promptly turned to my mother and spoke in French for the rest of the meeting. Marie would answer in English, which served only to make Hortense even more determined.
Mother's Mother. Yikes
Helene never envisaged a teenager in her life, but to her credit, she did as well as she could by me. There was always food, and she gave me money for travel and clothes.
Mom's friend took care of her after her passing of cancer
‘Grace/Simon’.
Who is Grace ???
Andrew was the son of Simon’s brother Lee and possibly the hardest to glean any reliable information about.
Self-care is the latest consumerist trend pushed at women wrapped up as empowerment. But that doesn’t mean it’s not nice. And after all, it’s important to look after yourself after a hard week at work.
Kelly was a blackmailer. She had a nice line in getting married men to send her photos, photos which their wives might not like too much.
Cellmate
Not an elegant crime, I grant you, but I have no sympathy for her victims either. If you are delusional enough to believe that anyone wants to see a grainy iPhone picture of your flaccid little friend, you deserve to get bled for it.
The Latimers
Jimmy's family
Annabelle and I made a great performance of rolling our eyes and sighing loudly. I wasn’t going to uni, much to the dismay of John and Sophie, who seemed not to understand that there was any other option.
More info on jimmy's family
‘Yes, we moved in shortly before Bryony was born, since we knew we’d need a bigger place for children.’
Simon's wife & child, who is 13-moths older than Grace
The third benefit of working at Artemis Holdings was meeting my beloved informant Tina.
Tina was the PA to the deputy CEO, Graham Linton, a close friend and henchman to Simon.
I had read that his mother Lara had been utterly devastated by her only son’s death, making no public comment but pulling back from her work as Artemis Holdings Vice President and establishing a charity for wildlife preservation in Andrew’s name.
The society pages still constantly featured Lee, but Lara seemed to have retreated from London entirely, staying mostly at their farmhouse in Oxfordshire.
Lee was Simon’s younger brother by three years.
Aged 29, he met Lara through her work at Artemis Holdings, and married her eight months later
Lee
How little men promise. How much we grasp at it.
Literally!!!
Men often do that, spreading out their legs on the Tube as though they have an innate need to fill any space that isn’t filled, walking down the middle of a narrow pavement and being almost surprised when they career into you, nudging too close in a coffee shop queue as though you’ll give way. They don’t even notice what they’re doing. They are important, their needs are important.
Barf
Men like that get away with an unbelievable amount. Even if you hate that kind of attitude, it’s hard to push back against it sometimes. And then later, you hate yourself for enabling it.
Exactly
That made him laugh. Men often laugh with surprise when they find women funny, as though it’s a skill we’re not expected to possess.
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter.
Look up
I replaced a book of fairy tales with a real-life scream of pain about the worst thing that humanity has ever done. Annabelle had nightmares for three days after she’d finished reading If This Is a Man. Sophie was full of pride for how empathetic her daughter was.
Also look up
When I was younger and the Latimer house got too much for me, I’d tramp around Hampstead Heath for hours with their old dog Angus, letting my thoughts float around, moving in and out of my head with each step. Nothing can stick in my brain when I’m moving.
My favorite easy escape
Grant me the confidence of a man who can go to a sex club with a spotty arse.
Lolololol
I feel quite often that it’s good not to know what goes on in the male mind. If we did, I suspect we would spend a lot of our lives in fearful despair.
