Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Tim Blackman had saved his daughter’s life when she was twenty-one months old. She had experienced a febrile convulsion, a muscle spasm caused by fever and dehydration, which had caused her to swallow her own tongue, blocking off her breathing.
#2 When Lucie was born, her parents experienced deep, but complicated, happiness. But Jane’s father was a broken man after his wife died, and she had to be brave.
#3 Jane left school at fifteen. She took a secretarial course and found a job at a big advertising agency. When she was nineteen, she traveled to Mallorca with a girlfriend and stayed there for six months, cleaning cars for a living.
#4 Tim had a business partner and they began developing property. In 1982, the family moved to the commuter town of Sevenoaks, in Kent. Here, their period of hardship was over, and Jane was able to create the childhood she had always wanted for her children.
