I love Donna Tartt. I'm a big reader - really enjoy crime and thrillers and also literary fiction. My concentration is still not what it was - I find it difficult to settle to anything right now - but I'm determined to get that part of myself back. Reading has always been such a comfort and solace to me.

How are you doing today Dilly? I don't know if you're still in contact with your H, and I know that not being often gets you spinning and gives you separation anxiety. In my experience, if you hold on to yourself and let that pass, you will get to the place where you are feeling freer and calmer and less interested in what he's doing or not doing - and then you'll be able to spend all that nervous energy on yourself and your own life. Hang in there. It might feel awful in the short term but it really is better for you to go through it rather than to sustain this semi-attachment to someone who does not respect or value you. You can do it.