Baby Blue" picks up Mia's story (begun in "Blue Moon") just after the birth of her baby. Mia is sixteen now, and still living with Dad, although this relationship becomes increasingly under strain. Not only is Mia having to work out the complicated emotional and practical implications of being a ...
Who would write to me at Moat House? And instantly I know, and my heart’s hammering against my ribs and I snatch the envelope up and go to lie on the top bunk to open it, where no one can see. Inside is a postcard with an aerial view of the Island of Portland, and a cross ...
Evie calls down the stairs. ‘Freya? Joe?’ ‘It’s me,’ I call back. Why don’t I tell her what Joe’s doing? Later, I ask myself this over and over. I still don’t know the answer. ‘Gramps and I are having an early night,’ Evie says. ‘Help yourself to fo...
There’s a line of cars and vans coming slowly along the road through the village, bumping over the cattle grid. I run past the shop and the telephone box, the telecom mast and the hotel, out of the village. I turn left up the hill to find the one spot where my mobile gets a fragment of reception....
It would be so much easier if I were actually there, on the island. I’ve got my sketchbooks, and my memories of it all, from so many summer visits, but it’s still not the same. I have a habit of seeing what I want to see, what I want to remember: an idealised landscape. I blot out the rest. And t...