Mary Gibson

she knew from bitter experience that silence and absence only stoked the fires of longing

but she took it for a sign that her new life was possible without her old dreams

. Now she was here, she told herself she didn’t need either her dad or Johnny in order to be happy.

Exactly! That’s because you’re thinking of Fran, not yourself.

are cut from the same cloth

but what we just witnessed, it’s not uncommon. His temper flares up. I’m not making excuses, but I blame the war. He went through hell – well, they all did, how couldn’t they come back changed?

Don’t matter about what Archie Goss gives you or don’t give you, a woman needs her own money.’

But, Kate, I couldn’t carry on, it was breaking my heart. So, I do go. And I see my darling boy whenever I can

there’s so much I can’t remember about the war, yet I know it happened. I have the wounds to prove it!’

where will I go? how will I live?
The same place and the same way I have since I was six, she answered.