![]() ‘Nothing, I knew, would be the same again, and I think I was reasonably shaken . . . Then they handed her to me, stiff and howling, and I held her for the first time and kissed her, and she went still and quiet as though by instinctive guile, and I was instantly enslaved by her flattery of my powers.’ ‘This moment of meeting seemed to be a birthtime for both of us her first and my second life. ![]() ![]() ‘She was born in the autumn and was a late fall in my life, and lay purple and dented like a little bruised plum, as though she’d been lightly trodden in the grass and forgotten,’ wrote Lee, in an opening sentence curiously reminiscent of his most famous work, Cider With Rosie. Spanning just 16 pages, published in hardback and laced with beautiful photographs of mother and child, it was entitled The Firstborn. ![]() Damaged: Jessy trained as a psychotherapist as a result of her own experiences growing upĪuthor Laurie Lee greeted his daughter Jessy’s arrival in the world with a small, but in his trademark style, lyrical essay. ![]()
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