I would wake up, sometimes on the settee, but often in bed alongside my child, not remembering how either of us had got there.’ Most startlingly of all, a year after Mark’s death from catastrophic heart arrhythmia, Lucie embarked on a vigorous sexual relationship with a luridly tattooed local plumber — ‘With him, I felt I was immune to the curse of death by intercourse.’ Me After You is, despite everything, a story of survival and, cautiously, recovery.
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