A Sidekick Advent Calendar: Day 5

As the Spirit of Christmas Past took Scrooge back in time, so will we now whisk you back to glistening ice, opulence and crowds of people. But this is no party.

The year is 1912 and the location is the RMS Titanic. Sidekick proudly presents two extracts from drowned book and fragmentary masterpiece, The Debris Field, written by Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe.

Let’s begin with a festive memory.