For a Girl

Contents

My body remembers

PART I: Wandering

Happy families are all alike

My teacher and her husband

101 Grattan Street

Where the real pain begins

PART II: Disappearing

A different skin

Keeping the secret

Writer Mary-Rose

Otis in the world

PART III: Returning

The house of my addled mind

The sewer in Hope Street

The decision I made

What happens to women

I’d rather be happy than normal

Unresolved grief

PART IV: Arriving

Writer’s note