I'd love you to read a few passages from the third and fourth pages of the narrative.

Okay.

At 14, I was allowed to stay at home alone for the very first time.

At 14, as I wondered why my parents weren't home yet, the phone rang.

Sorry, wrong number.

which Orson Welles called the greatest radio play ever written, was broadcast for the last time on February 14, 1960.

At 14, the woman at the end of the line told me there had been an accident.

is that? Well, that is part of the next question I'd like to ask you, which is to what extent does fragmentation enable marginalised or silenced voices to find a way to speak? And I think it does definitely

It was about like returning to the topic as well.

Oh yes.

Oh yes.

So the first book was written in my 14 year old voice.

And I said to myself, I really want to write the book I wish I had when I was 14 because all of the grief books, none of them spoke to me.

When I was 14 in this horrific grief, I thought I was going crazy.

So there were no, none of the books spoke to me.

In terms of process, at what point did you realize you weren't just writing fragments, you were writing a book? And how did that affect you? And the second question is, once you've written the book, how did you find yourself in a situation, which is quite rare for authors, where you're being Um, published in multiple locations at the same time through multiple publishers.