“EMULATE ALL THE SHIT my mother hated, I can’t help but demonstrate my Freudian fate,” sang Amy Winehouse, fearing she was destined to replicate her adulterous father’s behaviour.
My own father had an affair while my mum was pregnant with me. It went on for years and is something I’ve never been able to let go of.
Not only was it her he was betraying, but also the idea of us, the family that was about to begin.