Hannah became obsessed with politics, obsessed with the game. She began talking to him about his job, about issues of national concern. Perhaps inevitably, due to the demands of his profession, Henry had been absent for a large part of Hannah's upbringing. He tried, by God did he try, but he just wasn't there so much of the time. She and her mother lived in his constituency, a fiercely working class borough of Liverpool, while he would spend much of the time in London. Hannah had lost one parent, so she was now determined to be as close to the other as possible.
And, as it turns out, she was a natural. She understood the intricacies of public policy and party politics better than the most experienced hacks and operatives. She was a kind of political phenom, and pretty soon she was essenti
