I’m not mean, I’m honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.

Cops, I’ve learned, are like vampires; they can’t come in unless you invite them.

I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I’d never be able to make my way home again. But I...

I remember my brother as such a gentle and loving child, the best big brother a girl could hope for, but I remember when I started to sense our family’s world tilting on its axis,...