Biggest Crime Committed: Letting her child wander off into the woods unsupervised. In The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, is there any point at all during Trish doing a wee in the woods where Trish's mum looks round and wonders where she is? Couldn't she have waited for her, instead of squabbling with her other child Pete over ridiculous family matters? While this particular mother character goes out of her mind with worry when she understands that Trish is properly lost in the woods, it's just a bit too easy to point the finger of blame at the parent who wasn't paying enough attention to their child. Like Louis in Pet Semetary, this is yet another of Stephen King's parent characters who makes a mistake, and the readers have to spend the rest of the book paying for it by watching the descent into terror that the associated characters go through.
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
