Asking for Trouble
“Not just by her grief or her expressed wish I’d been the one found hanging from the light fitting. It had disturbed the way I’d felt until then about my own mother’s desertion. Perhaps I’d also judged her too quickly. When she went, she must have had good reason. Much as I’d loved my father, obviously my mother and he had troubles which couldn’t be resolved. If she hadn’t taken me with her, possibly it was because she, like Marcia, had needed to begin her life over again from scratch, without t...he encumbrance of a young child, or had had nowhere to go remotely suitable for a kid. Then I thought about Lucy and her children. Even reduced to living in the squat, Lucy had never once envisaged parting from the children. No matter how bad things got, she’d told me once, the three of them stayed together. No way would she ever let the kids be taken into care, and, as for the father having them, ‘I’d kill him first!’ she’d said. I think she meant it. It was complicated and, to be fair, not having faced a similar situation myself, I was in no position to judge.MoreLess
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