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11th November, 2020
When her younger daughter becomes unwell, Lindsay shares her frustration at the catastrophic thought reflexes she experiences. She worries that she can’t help but interpret innocuous childhood illnesses as the beginning of something far more sinister and that she would be to blame if she dismissed something that later turned out to have been the start of something serious.
She remembers how her own mother responded when she was ill as a child. Worries she is, again, misremembering. Accedes that her mother had a responsibility to her children but also to the family business at Auchengate.
