Mrs Dalloway, racing your friends, and a sickly stick of rock

With Lucy Kenningham and Sally Bayley

For about five summers in the late 2000s, my Mum’s workplace would pile its employees and their families into a coach to Drayton Manor theme park. It was often the only time we would ‘go away’ in the holidays, with subsidised tickets and free travel. My brother and I would wait all month in eager anticipation of the overstimulating day of candyfloss and…