'To say that I was estranged from my father implies that I'd known him well at some point, and that one of us broke off contact. In reality, I never knew him at all. '

To say that I was estranged from my father implies that I'd known him well at some point, and that one of us broke off contact. But that's not the case. In reality, I never knew him at all. My parents divorced while I was in nappies.