Laura Purcell

I have been a terrible coward. But I am willing to be brave now. After all these years, I have finally found my voice.’

Indeed, it is common when a patient has endured trauma

Elsie had been fighting for her life and Sarah had not lifted a finger.

This was the girl that just yesterday Elsie had hoped to live with, live for! How could she have got Sarah so wrong?

They were still sitting on the same side of the table, but they were not a team now. The space between their shoulders prickled like static. His mind must be racing with the same thoughts as Elsie’s: why did I trust her; how could I be so foolish; why would she betray me like that?

Wood, always wood