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2000s: Who can you trust if you can’t trust yourself?
2000s: Who can you trust if you can’t trust yourself?
Lizzie lives in the Lake District with her partner, Jonty, and his teenage son, Sam. Though she’s only ten years older than her stepson, somehow their set-up works. They’re a unit, a family.
But now Sam has become sullen and withdrawn – aggressive even – and Lizzie’s sure something sinister is going on.
She’s sure, but no one will believe her.
They think the problem is Lizzie herself.
“Coniston Water The English Lake District. A glorious spring day, sharp as a shard of glass. We’re gliding up the lake, the boat following a comfortable melody and I’m finally beginning to relax”
A city girl in an alien activity but the beauty to the Lake District is something else “Coniston in March is not La Rochelle in August.”
This is Sam’s environment. Sam who suggested the lake and the sailing
“The lake, the mountains, the wind”
“The weather forces even the most reticent to be spontaneous because it rains a lot in the Lake District”
Today the first early buds are appearing on the fragile branches,; in a matter of weekends there will be green on green added to this palette, khaki through to lime, the purple hum of bluebells between. Our slice of paradise.
Destination: The Lake District, Coniston Water Author/Guide: Zosia Wand Departure Time: 2000s
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