The turn came about fourteen months in, at a handover, in a driveway.

Nell had gone inside.

Antonia was about to get in her car, and she stopped, and she said, “Can I say something that isn’t about the schedule?”

I said yes.

And she said: “I’ve been in therapy for a year and I’ve spent most of it on my mother, and I’ve just spent four months on you, and I’ve got to the thing and I want to say it out loud once and then I’ll never bring it up again.

“There’s a version of me that thinks the seven weeks were about my mother.