Rebecca Swift, writer and editor, is co-founder and Director of The Literary Consultancy. She is the author of Dickinson: Poetic Lives (Hesperus Press, 2011) and has written and reviewed for the Independent on Sunday and the Guardian.
‘Yet Grandma did talk to me that afternoon, and it was as if a wild flower had grown out of the rubble, survived for a day and then disappeared.’
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