Jesse Blackadder's new story of love and grief and a tragedy that had to be told

By Melanie Kembrey
Updated October 18 2017 - 9:48am, first published October 13 2017 - 7:09am

Jesse Blackadder had tried to write about her two-year-old sister drowning in the family swimming pool. She had, in fact, finished a manuscript and attracted the interest of a major publisher. The grief proved to be too raw - for Blackadder as well as her family - and the book was shelved.