'A woman ‘comes to’ in darkness, eyelids and mouth taped shut, thoughts leaden and lagging. A second woman tends to the first, rubbing life back into her cold limbs in a grotesque pantomime of birth. Even as Esther’s awareness of the world around her grows, her thoughts compulsively circle back to her children, Wolfie and Clare. ‘Where am I?’ she asks Grace after her breathing tube has been removed. Then: ‘Where are my kids?’'(Introduction)