Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best— well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.

What Alice Forgot (ed. Penguin, 2011) - ISBN: 9781101515372