Ellen

Female | 40s | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 1

EXTRACT: It was a school night./ The other boys were waiting at the bottom of the hill. They were planning to go to the place where they go: The skate park./ I know they go there, I know he goes there, I know they go there at night sometimes./ I know he goes out the window./ That's not ideal. But you choose your battles. This was a battle I chose not to have right now./ Believe it or not, this was not the priority./ Regardless of that, I didn't know. I thought he was in bed.

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Andrew

Male | 40s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 26

EXTRACT: And you're right, it is a fucking disgrace. We should be in mourning. We should be at the boy's bedside. We should be at his family's house, begging on our knees for forgiveness for what our son did./ Understood./ But there will be mourning. There will be pain. There will be a whole world now of self-recrimination which will quite possibly go on forever for you and me, I don't know. But I know it, I've felt it, it's real.

Contains coarse language

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