Amherst
“Driving herself to Jack’s home in her mother’s car, Alice slips back in time and she’s a child again, on her way down this same road to school. She feels again the scratch of her school kilt on her bare thigh, and the dread in the pit of her stomach. She hears her mother cursing the slow-moving traffic under her breath. She herself wants the journey never to end.Those pitiful partings.“In you go, darling. Just one more kiss, then.”The feel of her mother’s arms round her. The terror of the embra...ce coming to an end. The chill of being on her own.Dear God, was it really so bad? A small country prep school run by kindly teachers. And yet printed deep in her physical memory is this sensation of stark fear.She turns off the main road at the roundabout, and the ghosts of school hide their faces. Here, entering the village of Edenfield down the Newhaven road, she meets other memories, inherited memories, passed on by her grandmother, the one who now lives in France. This is the village where her grandmother grew up, in the very house to which she’s now driving.MoreLess
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