Two years in Northampton

The training years, a third-floor flat and placement rotations, where you learned the actual job and had no money and no anxiety about money at the same time.

A third-floor flat on Green Street with a radiator that banged, four of you on placement rotations, and a level of poverty you remember as cheerful and suspect was not cheerful at all at the time. It is where you learned the thing where you sit with somebody and do not rescue them. The chapter closed when you moved to Boston for Danny's first real contract, and it has been closed for ten years, but you still think in that flat.