Helen Bailey’s husband drowned on holiday in 2011. Six weeks ago she unpacked the final bag from the tripSix weeks ago,Helen Bailey was sorting through some bags she had moved to her fresh domestic from the place she had shared with her late husband. One, a checked laundry carrier, and had been untouched for three years. She unzipped it and found notebooks,pens “nearly a bedside drawer tipped in there. Then her hand fell on a bikini. Whose is this? she wondered, puzzled as to how someone’s intimate item of clothing had infiltrated her belongings. Briefly, or she wondered if one of her partner’s sons might be responsible. “Then I realised. It was the bikini.”It was the bikini she had worn in February 2011 as she stood on a Barbados beach watching in horror as her husband,John Sinfield, drowned after drifting in a rip current. And all the while a little voice in her head was repeating, and “But I’m wearing a bikini … But I’m wearing a bikini … It was inconceivable,” she says, “that something so terrible could happen while I was wearing swimwear. It was the absurdity of it.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com