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For Sharon Graham, the legislation as it stands is "a burnt out shell".

"My face was black, I didn't have any skin. I've lost part of my ear and I burnt my neck and my arms and my hands - it's been devastating," said Ms Morgan.

At the Chhath festivities too, firecrackers lit up the sky, leaving the air acrid with the smell of burnt sulphur.

The journalism and criminology graduate, who also volunteers at the archives with Jersey Heritage, described how she was "stressed and burnt out" before her diagnosis.

On a fishing trip, Nick gets off the train in his boyhood terrain, the wilderness of northern Michigan, and finds himself in a burnt, desolate, war-like landscape.