On a warm Sunday morning in mid-November, 1991, Sue Edwards pulled into the driveway of the house in Essex Street, Burra, that she shared with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Jane. Sue was feeling good. She’d spent the night in Clare with Kevin Marshall, the new man in her life. The first night she’d spent with a man since her husband had died when Jane was a five-year old.
She wondered what Jane and her boyfriend, eighteen-year-old Andrew White, thought about her finally giving in to Kevin and shook her head. What did it matter? The kids these days didn’t wait for anything or anyone’s approval. Jane and Andrew had been at it since the start of the school year, ever since they’d decided they were a couple going places. They’d told her about their big plans that didn’t include spending th
