The woman who had lost a sister, married a bully and moved out to suburbia, where she discovered that making herself very small and quiet was the best way to survive. And then one day, many years later, she looked in the mirror and realised that life had silently passed her by. Her grey hair, that ache in her knees, the muffle in her left ear – they weren’t going away. While she’d been busy washing up and cooking Terry’s tea and wiping kids’ noses, she’d grown old.
