"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
