I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
Jenny DownhamI shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.
Jenny DownhamMaybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?
Jenny DownhamDon't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
Jenny Downham