How Could He Do It?

'In Many Ways We Were an Ordinary Family Mum, Dad, Two Kids, Three Dogs, One Rabbit, Two Guinea Pigs. I Stayed at Home, Studying With the Open University, and Dad Worked, and the Kids Went to Private Schools. We Lived in a Rather Nice Semi in a Rather Nice Area of Edinburgh, With a Rather Nice Volvo in the Drive, and Took Rather Nice Holidays, Wearing Rather Nice Clothes. I Loved Daniel Deeply and I Thought - No, I Was Sure - He Loved Me Deeply, Too. and We Both Loved Our Kids Deeply (I Thought). and That Was As It Should Be. We Had It Made. in Some Ways We Weren't a Completely Ordinary Family. There Was Daniel, for One; He Worked for Most of the Time We Were Married As a Ship's Engineer, and so He Was Away From Home for Up to Four Months and Then Home on Leave for Up to Two. and Tamsin, Our Fifteen-Year-Old Daughter, Had Specific Learning Difficulties. but I'm Pretty Ordinary an Unlikely Heroine. I Am Disabled Because of Back Problems. I'm Pretty Fat - I've Put on a Lot of Weight Th