Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott

Back in 2021 I wrote about the jealousy I felt on discovering that English novelist Jenny Diski (1947-2016) was, as a teenager, living in an informal foster care arrangement with one of my all-time favourite writers, Doris Lessing. Now I’m feeling envious that I hadn’t been given the opportunity to board at somewhere like the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Although, tbh, any…