The Dutch House: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020

Mon Uncle.

There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you’d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you’re suspended, knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.

I felt a quick gust of annoyance and I let it turn to anger, anger being infinitely preferable to guilt.