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This chapter focuses on Julia and like its predecessor contains the full interview transcript, together with some context. Julia’s daughter ‘Kitty’ died 21 years prior to the interview in a remote island, which becomes a central character within the interview. Julia’s repeated belief that the family were ‘so blessed’ at the time of Kitty’s death is a stark contrast to the anger which features throughout Cathy’s interview. However, Julia’s rendering of the story and the romantic quality of the island initially obfuscated the deeper meanings of her narrative and created particular responses in the data analysis panel. As in the previous chapter, this panel response forced the author to interrogate her own reactions and this is described in detail within the chapter.
We were so blessed.
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Turner, D. (2017). Julia. In: Perspectives on the Experience of Sudden, Unexpected Child Death. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66017-2_7
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