A journalist is haunted by the ghost of a story - and a woman - she
can't leave behind. A story so powerful that it haunts the dreams and
waking hours of all that have lived through it. A genocide in which the
West failed to save the innocent. This is the story of aftermath - of
how the dead we fail, haunt us - and how we must return, to lay their
ghosts and set ourselves free.
Katharine Quarmby is a writer, journalist, and film-maker. Her latest
book is No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and
Travellers (One World Publications, 2013). Her first Kindle Single,
Blood and Water, was also published this year (Thistle, 2013). In 1997
she travelled with reporter Fergal Keane and BBC Panorama to Rwanda,
two years after the genocide, working as assistant producer on the Bafta
award-winning Valentina's Story. She returned with Fergal Keane to
produce two prize-winning films with BBC Newsnight in 1999. Since then
she has worked both in TV and in print journalism, as a correspondent
for The Economist, as well as contributing to British broadsheets,
including the Guardian and Sunday Times. This is her first short
story.
