Broken Places (2011)
“‘So much larger, for one thing. And nicer altogether – more like a proper park.’ ‘Well, they changed the name from Park Hill Recreation Ground to Park Hill pure and simple.’ Mandy was busy taking photographs, snapping away from every angle. ‘And you’ll never guess when – 1964 – the very year you were born! I reckon they wanted to upgrade you.’ He laughed, although the sound was almost jarring in his present state of mind. It was incredibly emotive coming here for the first time in his life – th...e very place his mother had left him; cutting the cord, for ever. Was it as cold then as today, he wondered, picturing the unhappy girl not only terrified and weakened after the birth, but also frozen stiff? All the years he’d lived here, he’d been desperate to believe that she had deliberately remained in Croydon, so she could watch her son grow up – brushing past him in the street; sitting next to him on the bus; mouthing a silent goodbye as he went into school each morning; a silent hello when he emerged again, at four.MoreLess
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