When I Had a Little Sister: The Story of a Farming Family Who Never Spoke by...

When I had a Little Sister by Catherine Simpson is a searingly honest and heartbreaking account of growing up in a farming family, and of Catherine\u2019s search for understanding into what led her younger sister to kill herself at 46. It\u2019s a story of sisters and sacrifice, grief and reclamation, and of the need to speak the unspeakable.\nWhen did she decide to die? Was it before midnight on Friday the 6th, because she couldn\u2019t face another night or was it before dawn on Saturday the 7th because she couldn\u2019t face another day?\nDid she think about us? Did she think about her dog, Ted, or her cat, Puss, sleeping on Grandma Mary\u2019s old sofa in the conservatory and who would be waiting for her to feed them in the morning? What about her horses in the stable? Did she think about them? Did she imagine Dad finding her? It would have to be Dad, after all. It couldn\u2019t be anyone else.\nDid she know what she was doing?\nOn a cold December day in 2013 Catherine Simps.