Dedication

To my children, who have changed me for the better.

And especially for Becks – with love, always.

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‘There’s this world,’ she banged the wall graphically, ‘and there’s

this world,’ she thumped her chest. ‘If you want to make sense

of either, you have to take notice of both.’

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Jeanette Winterson

Oranges are not the Only Fruit

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‘My instinct about memory is that it is half imagination.’

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George Szirtes

‘Although poetry doesn’t have to be true,

it does have to have truth in it.’

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Kim Moore