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The author eloquently evokes her detached avoidant emotional response to being sent to boarding school between the ages of ten and fifteen - ‘a dull thud of landing’ - and the sequelae of her experience, including the visiting of the same painful experience on her own children, her life-long struggle with self-other difficulties, and the self-discovery provided by her experience of psychotherapy and counselling.