She said: “You are entitled to think your ex-wife failed your daughter.

She did.

“You are not entitled to make your daughter carry your opinion of her mother, and if you do, she will not resolve it by agreeing with you.

She will resolve it by concluding that she has to manage you.

“Which is the exact thing that was done to her in the first place.”

Part Sixteen: Antonia, Now

We have been divorced for two years and we speak about four times a week.

That surprises people more than anything else in this account, and it surprises me on about half the occasions it happens.