Philadelphia. 3rd October 1996. The building was wearing a hat. That was the first thing she noticed, standing across Spruce Street at a quarter to eleven with the envelopes inside her coat. Thirty-odd storeys of pale brick going up and up, and then at the very top somebody had...
The Lessons Alderley Edge, Cheshire. 1919 to 1938. Cradle song Holly Bank. March 1919. The first thing she knows is a voice. She does not know it is a voice. She knows nothing yet. She is eleven days old, in a cot in the night nursery at the top of...
