living without my sister

Twenty years after losing her twin, novelist Diana Evans still feels incomplete, yet she’s finding ways to share the loss – and celebrate her sibling’s life – with her children

My children have never known their aunt. She lives inside picture frames and memories. She is a white stone cross in a cemetery a long drive away, which we visit periodically with flowers. While we are there, my daughter makes some kind of arrangement of twigs at the foot of the grave, as an offering to her invisible aunt. Afterwards, she and her younger brother play among the stones, chasing each other and finding sticks. It is a perpetual sadness to me that they will never know my twin, or experience the fun and opportunity of having her in their lives. She died 20 years ago. Were it an ordinary death – in as far as any death is ordinary – the matter of communicating it to my children would be…

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Red UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2018

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