Horrifying the web of complicity and failure to protect, or even consider, Andrea Skinner. Parents and step-parents obviously, but consider this Munro biographer who just decided to ignore her letters.
I think there’s definitely an aspect of “Let’s not let the truth ruin a good story” in both.
But worse, a systematic refusal to listen to women and children, to discount what they say, and to punish them, rather than their abusers, when they speak out.
THIS. Every single one of them - and especially the biographer- should be facing a social penalty. The smug tone in his replies, the intimation that Skinner was being vengeful and he was taking the high road. Blood boiling fury.
