A quiz for Sparks

[grahameb]

I don't know if this has been discussed before, apologies if it has.....

Did Sheila have any close friends?

p.s: If it hasn't been discussed before,should this be under a new topic?

She had Freddie. He seems to me to have loved Sheila and to have been a devoted friend to her. He stopped with her all night when she was in the grip of violent psychotic delusions that terrified Freddie. Yet Sheila loved only Colin and she appears to have rejected Freddie, aside from when she needed to borrow money or to rely on him for support.

She appears to have been a very insecure young woman. But your observations certainly show that she was more than capable of carrying out the killings. How on earth could the relatives know all this and what she was really like, and give such a detailed description of her lifestyle if they hadn't even seen her or the family since Christmas?

[grahameb]

I don't know if this has been discussed before, apologies if it has.....

Did Sheila have any close friends?

p.s: If it hasn't been discussed before,should this be under a new topic?

She had Freddie. He seems to me to have loved Sheila and to have been a devoted friend to her. He stopped with her all night when she was in the grip of violent psychotic delusions that terrified Freddie. Yet Sheila loved only Colin and she appears to have rejected Freddie, aside from when she needed to borrow money or to rely on him for support.

Thankyou for your reply Chochokeira. But I was wondering if she had any close female friends, that she may have confided in?

I can't recall anyone mentioning that Sheila had a close female friend. She might have benefited from belonging to a therapy group where she would have met women like herself, then she might have been and felt less alone. I've read of her going out - to nightclubs with friends, I believe - during the period when she was seeing Freddie, or perhaps once their relationship had ended. But this may have been a factor in Sheila's drug use.

I can say from personal experience that it is very difficult to get schizophrenics to admit that they are as ill as they actually are, or get them to go to and continue to go to such therapy groups. I really think that the fact that Colin told her that there was no chance of them getting back together was enough to tip her over the edge and pull the rug from underneath her so that she came to the conclusion that all hope in life had gone. Jeremy could not have known about these secret things that she and Colin discussed that day.

[chochokeira]

Apologies for the errors in the timeline. I can see that I've messed up Sheila's pregnancies and miscarriages, I'll try to correct these and other errors when I've more time.

[Reader]

Do you think reader is a...........erm.......reader?

Of course I am, but my membername is also an obscure reference to the similarly named character in "The mind of Mr J G Reeder".

[grahameb]

Do you think reader is a...........erm.......reader?

Of course I am, but my membername is also an obscure reference to the similarly named character in "The mind of Mr J G Reeder".

I used to know somebody who was a reader. She was always correcting me on the terms I used.