Unknown (main narrator, possibly Aaron Tracy)

She carries the weight of it, a burden no teenager should have to bear.

Quick aside about Tessa for a second.

Whether it's because of all the tumult of her youth or some other reason, Tessa starts to rebel during her teenage years much more than the other kids.

She throws herself into a series of relationships with much older men, often around the same age as her father.

Her most noteworthy fling is with the actor Peter Sellers from Dr. Strangelove and Being There.

Sellers is 50 at the time of the affair.

Tessa is 19.

But back to the story.

Tessa's willingness to keep her father's affair a secret is what allows it to continue, with gusto.

Eventually, Neil does, of course, put two and two together about her husband and this beautiful woman he's spending time with.

And she is furious.

In fact, she tells their daughter Ophelia about her father's affair.

Which is so complicated when you remember how devastated Neil was years earlier when Gary Cooper's wife did the exact same thing, telling their daughter about her father's affair with Neil.

It all becomes such an ugly scene that Felicity insists to Dahl they have to break it off.

Which they do.

Dahl grows miserable without Felicity.

He can barely eat, barely work.

He goes to his wife and begs her to allow him to keep seeing Felicity.

He promises he doesn't want a divorce.

He wants to stay with the children and stay in the house near his writing hut.