Simon Booker – Why I Write

To say that I was estranged from my father implies that I’d known him well at some point, and that one of us broke off contact. In reality, I never knew him at all. To say that I was estranged from my father implies that I’d known him well at some point, and that one of us broke off contact. But that’s not the case. In reality, I never knew him at all. My parents divorced while I was in nappies.

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