Tell Me How This Ends

by Jo Leevers

Then perhaps Annie will forgive her for her bluntness and blunders and she’ll understand why, ever since that day in Masura, Henrietta has felt the need to keep a very firm grip on things. She’s stayed on the fringes of life, observing rather than participating. She lives by her own strict set of rules and she has her routines, which keep her safe and stop unexpected things happening.

‘You’re never alone with a book, as my mum would say,’

grief is the price we pay for love

Oh, bless this Henrietta with her doggedness, her strange way of showing love, the way she never lets go of an idea.