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Memoir

The Cattle Grid

memoir by Annabel Leventon

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Jun 21, 2026
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The year my marriage finally fails, I’m working at Theatre Clwyd, in North Wales, with my newly four-year-old son Harry, my dog Smudge and a mother’s help. Without my husband.

“Go on the mountain, Mummy.” Harry begs, strapped into the child seat in the back of the car. He likes the cattle grid. It rattles as we approa…

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