Trip of a Lifetime
Trip of a Lifetime is about the things that are too hard to talk about, the secrets we keep from those we love, to protect them and to protect ourselves. It’s about how those secrets can create fault lines in our relationships. I wanted to explore the impact of a violent crime dropping like a stone into the placid pool of everyday life; how far the ripples would spread, the pressure they would put on the fault lines. I wanted to see how people my change when they simply had to confront things that had failed to face, about themselves, about each other, about their relationships.
Because I enjoy writing about people, particularly women, in their fifties and beyond the focus is on them; people who have kept their secrets for a very long time, people who have left bits of themselves stuck in the past. But younger people and children have a significant part in the story because we are all part of families and circles of friends and colleagues whose lives intertwine with our own often in quite surprising ways.
