A Lie About My Father

Authors: John Burnside

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“Nobody has to take anybody in, it’s always a choice, never only an obligation. Maybe that’s the view of an essentially homeless – or do I mean, unhoused – person, but I knew Tom Morgan didn’t have to take me in that day, when I turned up in Cambridge in my shirtsleeves, with nothing but loose change in my pocket. I met him in Belinda’s, the day after I left home. I had spent the night in a B&B, and was now spending the last of my money on coffee and cake, waiting for something to happen: to hap...pen, not in the world, but in my own mind, where the plan was laid out, written since the beginning of time – I really thought this – not fate so much as an unread map that was waiting for the circumstances and the moment to come that would allow it to be deciphered. I’d always had that perverse fondness for being lost and, when I was lost, something always happened. It could be an expensive way to make decisions, but I didn’t know how else to do it.
I was in this frame of mind, then, when I met Tom.MoreLess Read More Read Less