grieving

In 2021, Owen told MPs that after her own miscarriage she felt physically better in a few days but had "all the classic signs" of grieving.

He is yet to get his money back despite supplying a copy of his father's death certificate, and said the ordeal had made grieving more difficult.

He was a serial sexual assaulter, a fact that is glossed over in the performative grieving of others.

The novelist says that grieving for her mother, who died suddenly on her father's birthday in 2021, had a role in shaping her new novel.

“Dad liked to stand at the bar with his foot on the rail,” the grieving son explained.