The Darkest Red

The memories, surprises and forced conversations prompted by the close confines of the drive reveal more about the compromises of their shared life than they would care to confess.

He always travelled to work under an assumed name, though typically it was one he never changed. In later years, when he retired and it became public knowledge, there came a time when schoolchildren would  dance around concrete playgrounds singing of his fabled false identity and the case which made him, as one newspaper tactlessly put it, ‘hang up his hat’.

Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swortty, and to have cooler friends. But most of all she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, poll.