The Home by Sarah Stovell

Author:Sarah Stovell [Sarah Stovell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912374748
Publisher: Orenda Books Ltd
Published: 2019-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

‘Ace says you haven’t shown your face at work for weeks.’

‘I’ve been looking after Jade.’

‘We need money, Hope. We really need money.’ There was a panicked pitch to my mother’s voice.

I said, ‘Jade’s a baby. She needs looking after.’

‘Take her with you.’

I said nothing.

‘I said, take her with you.’

‘Ace’s house isn’t a place for a baby, Mum, and you know it.’

My mother shrugged. ‘It was fine for you when you were a baby.’

I looked her straight in the eye. ‘It wasn’t.’

‘And what do you remember about it? What harm did it do you?’

I struggled to give words to what I was feeling. I wanted to say it wasn’t that being there as a baby was harmful, but that being exposed to it all my life was … wrong. It was wrong to bring a child up to think this was normal, that this was what they should be aiming for. All I knew was that I never wanted Jade to go through the doors of that place. Not ever.

I said, ‘I’m not taking her. I’m not. If you stopped spending all your money on fucking drugs, you wouldn’t need me to work.’

The slap on the face came hard and fast.

And I struck back.

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