Alexandra Fuller was in a pickup truck in Wyoming with her girlfriend, Till, when her mobile beeped. The relationship was newish and fraught: Till was young, with “skin like alabaster”, but had issues – neediness, drugs, self-harm. Alexandra (“Bobo” as everyone knew her) was still recovering from a broken relationship and didn’t feel cut out for intimacy.
The dramas between them were intense but paled into insignificance as Fuller turned and saw missed calls from her ex-husband, Charlie. The news was terrible: their son Fi, just 21, had died in his sleep. “Fi died and everything that I’d believed in until then blinked out with him.”
