As the head girl and deputy head girl of their sixth form, Ruby Fuller and Jessie Ross joked that they would take the top two roles in Downing Street in years to come.
By the seventh appointment, Emma Jones was growing desperate. For weeks she had watched her happy, healthy daughter, Ruby, become more and more ill. She was 17 and had barely ever been sick – suddenly, she was tired all the time, had an odd pain in her shoulder, and every morning when she woke her slim face would have puffed up overnight, leaving her looking as if she had been “beaten up”.
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