Granta 119: Britain (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing) by Freeman John

Author:Freeman, John [Freeman, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781905881581
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2012-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

His sister, Helen, was unexpectedly born breech. The cord became trapped while her head was coming out and she was deprived of oxygen. Daniel is not told about this until he is sixteen. He knows only that there is a light in her eyes which stutters briefly sometimes then comes back on. He knows only that she has trouble with numbers, money, telling the time.

She will leave school at sixteen with no qualifications, living at home and working in a furniture warehouse then in a greengrocer’s. She will change doctors and get better drugs. Ethosuximide. Valproic acid. The petit mal will stop. She will be easily confused but she will be plump and blonde and pretty and people will like her instinctively. She’ll meet Garry at a nightclub. Overweight, thirty-five, detached house, running a taxi firm, a big man in a small world. They will marry and it will take Daniel a long time to realize that this is a happy ending.

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