Lies and Consequences

Cress lived in fantasy land, she always had. Her schoolmates, with whom she wasn’t necessarily always on guard, might call it telling lies, but nobody thought anything of it at home, it was just Cress, so much the youngest that she made her own world… nobody thought it was dangerous. She would grow out of it when she married and joined the real world. Cress did grow up, and she did marry, but she didn’t leave her fantasies behind. The situation into which they carried her was so terrible that she was afraid to tell the truth – so afraid that, in fact, she lost sight of where fantasy ended and the truth really began. And Debbie Nankervis, driving to Cornwall through a blizzard to talk business with her friends Tim and Lesley, was all unknowing on a collision course with the consequences. A great painter with words, Jane Hatton shows us just how difficult family relationships can sometimes be.