I heard my mother tell a friend: ‘I wish I’d never had children’

As a child, Charlotte Edwardes and her brothers ran wild while their mother fought depression and their father was away. Now the mum of three has used her memories as inspiration for her first novel

Iwas already a good climber at two and a half and the kitchen dresser was easy once I’d pushed the chair right up close to aid my ascent. My focus was the top shelf. There my mother stored the intriguing box she reached for every morning, sliding a packet from inside from which she popped her little pill.

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