If You Sit Very Still
by Marian Partington; Jessica Kingsley, £13
Marian Partington is the sister of Lucy Partington, who disappeared on her way home on December 20, 1973 and whose remains were found 20 years later in the cellar of the house in Gloucester owned by Fred and Rosemary West.
The subtitle, “A Sister’s Fierce Engagement with Traumatic Loss”, barely captures the intensity of the author’s grief and suffering. Yet the book has a strangely redemptive quality to it which raises it to a different level when compared with other books of this kind.
