
I went away to Butter’s pasture, to galloping through the green fields on Butter- (c) When things were very bad I could go away in my head, to a place where no one could touch me. We were still struggling not to drown in the storm-tossed sea. Jamie and I were shipwrecked, but we hadn’t been rescued after all. The Swiss Family Robinson got shipwrecked onto a beautiful island where everything turned out splendid for them. Mam hadn’t been much for words, and there was a limit to how much I could teach myself, looking out the one window of our flat.

You can know things all you like, but that doesn’t mean you believe them. The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2)
