article_snippet: idyllic — Christine had parents who laughed and holiday adventures on the Essex coast with Christine fearless older sister.
article_snippet: parents who laughed and holiday adventures on the Essex coast with her fearless older sister mother flirted Christine way to extra luxuries during rationing.
article_snippet: The girls were sent to a convent school run by nuns whose metal rulers left savage, red weals on dyslexic Christine’s hands as Christine’s struggled to write.
article_snippet: Jennifer kicked back at Christine’s tormentors and got the pair expelled.
article_snippet: By this point, Christine claims, Jennifer had become quite violent, sometimes ‘grabbing me by the hair and repeatedly banging my head against the wall’.
article_snippet: On one occasion, Jennifer older sister chased Jennifer around the house with a carving knife.
article_snippet: ‘Jennifer fury was all to do with the collapse of home life’.
article_snippet: the collapse of home life’ became total when 14-year-old Jennifer accidentally stayed downstairs playing the piano after the 5 pm curfew.
article_snippet: Jennifer adored the profession, but while Jennifer sister studied, Christine preferred to party.
article_snippet: Christine married into money, which Jennifer resented.
article_snippet: And Jennifer’s experience working with the nuns of Poplar led Christine to become religious in a way that alienated Christine from Christine, who felt shut out by Christine sister’s reliable response of ‘Go with God’ to any dilemma.