Extracts

The decision to begin my world trip in Australia was an easy one.

I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure.

On the day I was born, 3rd August 1986, ‘The Edge of Heaven’ by Wham! was number one.

Where will you be when your life ends?

Try to imagine two more different couples than these. You can’t.

Pripyat in the Ukraine is a place unlike anywhere else I have been. It is a place of utter despair.

It all began with Mallory’s tooth.

There was no peace, even in the loo. Rory’s pager and phone were going simultaneously.

I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

By the time Eliza Maxine Olivia Miller was eleven, she had lived in eight different country towns.

Her hand.

In the spring of 1944, I was sixteen, living with my parents and two older sisters in Kassa, Hungary.

I am in the spare room, which doubles as my office, and I have just finished my day’s work.

I heard him before I saw him.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

On a Saturday morning in late November 1944, in a railway shed in the Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen, three ballistic missiles, each nearly fifteen metres long...

The place looked like something out of Amityville: all paint-chipped walls, dusty windows, and menacing shadows cast by moonlight.

The car containing the four sleeping children left the earth.