The Happiest Days

Item: The Happiest Days
Author: WhichBook

Cressida Connolly

Each short story immediately pulls the reader in to the lives of the characters in such a way that you feel that you know them intimately. Stories of sibling rivalry, loss, friendship, family jealousies. Simple, seemingly ordinary tales of ordinary people made lyrical by a great storyteller.

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Even more than missing her, I felt guilty. I knew my parents would have preferred it to have been me who had died. I knew I had failed them by surviving Caitlin ... it was my fault she hadn't got better .... I had hated the way my mum never seemed to notice me anymore, after Caitlin got ill.

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