![]() ("Forgetting is, I think, a form of protection.") Assuming Sarah was dead, she lived a new life alone for 16 years, getting a cottage and a job updating dictionary entries. Gretel searched for her at first, but was happy enough to leave her behind. ![]() ![]() I drank whatever was in it to stop you from doing the same." One night they went out for dinner afterwards, Sarah pushed Gretel on to the homeward bus, and didn't get on. Occasionally I hid the flask and there would be a fight. Those days, as Gretel relates them to Sarah today, were unpleasant. When Gretel was 13, they moved on to that land, spending a three-year spell between hostels and B&Bs, ending up in a rented room above some stables. As a child in the Eighties, she lived with her mother Sarah on a boat, moored on the sullen waters nearby was "bastard land, the mess of railways beyond the trees, the rotting lock". ![]() Gretel, the narrator of Daisy Johnson's novel Everything Under, has spent a lifetime by canals. ![]()
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