Claire McGowan: Disability isn't an easy narrative - it's a spectrum

Profound disability is a difficult subject around which to writer a novel - former crime writer Claire McGowan channels her own experience

Claire McGowan Picture: Donna Ford

Profound disability is not a favoured subject of novels, especially when the main female character abandons her disabled child.

Meet Kate, mother of profoundly disabled Kirsty and profoundly ignored Adam.