Frances liardet we must be brave7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her pain is different: the child she looks after and grows to love, Pamela, is taken away from her at a young age to live far away. ![]() Ellen, unlike me, is childless, so she never experienced my pain. It didn’t take me long, after I first began to create the character of Ellen Parr, to realise that while I was writing about an English village during the Second World War, at its heart, I was writing about loss. I placed her with my grandparents because I know they will look after her until we all meet again. She died just before she was born, a baby who had my hands and feet and her father’s nose. I also cry.įor there is another birthday that I commemorate by visiting a country graveyard in the South of England, the final resting place of my maternal grandparents, on which my first daughter’s ashes are scattered. But I don’t simply laugh and smile on my daughter’s birthday. I am perfectly sure that all parents love their children inordinately. I am blessed by a child who came to me late in life, and I love this daughter of mine, who is now ten years old, inordinately. ![]()
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