The last time I saw my younger brother in good health, he was setting off on an ambitious hike across England, all the way from Somerset to the east coast.
When I get the call from the police, they say he’s been found somewhere near Hastings following an assault, unconscious and covered in his own vomit.
An ambulance has taken him to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton where surgeons are operating on his brain. The surgery will take hours.
By the time I get
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