“It saved me in more ways than I can count. Because I knew no matter how afraid I felt, I wasn't truly alone.
Angharad's eyes were shining now, too. "That's all I wanted, you know," she said. "When I was young-when I was your age.
I wanted just one girl, only one, to read my book and feel that she was understood, and I would be understood in return. Writing that book was like shining a beacon from a lighthouse, I suppose.
Are there any ships on the horizon? Will they signal back to me? I never got the chance to know. My husband's name was all over it, and his was the only ship I could see."
"I saw it," Effy whispered. "I see it. And it saved me.”