Broken soup pictures the catastrophic impact of grief on a north London family, a story we pick up more than two years after the death of 16-year-old Jack Clark. Charismatic when alive, Jack has acquired an extra gloss in death. "Even Jack would look bad if you compared him to his dead self," says Rowan, his sister, now 15, through whom we see the Clarks' plight: the mother thrust into paralysing depression; the father withdrawn and absent; and Rowan herself indulging in a protective orgy of coping, not least with six-year-old Stroma, her younger sister.
Broken soup pictures the catastrophic impact of grief on a north London family, a story we pick up more than two years after the death of 16-year-old Jack Clark. Charismatic when alive, Jack has acquired an extra gloss in death. "Even Jack would look bad if you compared him to his dead self," says Rowan, his sister, now 15, through whom we see the Clarks' plight: the mother thrust into paralysing depression; the father withdrawn and absent; and Rowan herself indulging in a protective orgy of coping, not least with six-year-old Stroma, her younger sister.
