The hours after reporting
A crime takes minutes. What follows takes months, and it is the months that decide whether a person feels believed.
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The hours after reporting
Why the aftermath of a crime is often the harder thing to write
A crime takes minutes. What follows takes months, and it is the months that decide whether a person feels believed.
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The man who delivers other people’s children
He has brought more children into the world than he can count and has never had one of his own. Then he is handed a piece of paper.
Three doors on the same street
Half a mile of ordinary road, three front doors, and behind each of them an arrangement the others would not believe.
What makes a father
A laboratory can tell you whose DNA a child carries. It cannot tell you who is going to get up at three in the morning.
A note on what this book contains
It seems fairer to say this plainly on a website than to let somebody discover it forty pages in.