A Dress for Kathleen Toby Buckley

A Dress for Kathleen Toby BuckleyEvery family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my fathers family that person was his sister Kathleen. So begins Heather Richardsons astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life was cut tragically short aged just 14. It is the early days of WW2 and Kathleen has just left school to start her first job at a linen mill. But this dark

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