It was god's punishment, they were told, and none of this would have come about if they'd kept their legs together.
"My mum escaped the cruelty of Ireland's mother and baby homes. i might not be alive if she hadn't"
The Guardian
By summer the water is as warm as a bath
There is nothing like the attention of someone staring at every single bit of you.
I’m about five in this rare photograph from my peripatetic childhood in Morocco with our mother.
Esther Freud on Hideous Kinky: 'Memories came back to me, humorous and chilling.'
THE GUARDIAN
the exhilaration hit me and I felt dizzyingly grateful to be alive
