Avalanche of Daisies (2014)
“Where’s my letter?’ She knew her restlessness was making her mother-in-law irritable but she didn’t care. Her anxiety was too acute.
On the first day she had a long letter from Joan, which she glanced at and didn’t read. On the second, a card from Becky and a parcel addressed to Mr & Mrs Steven Wilkins which turned out to contain an album full of wedding photographs, neatly arranged from a blurred shot of their scamper up the Town Hall steps to a perfect close-up of their cardboard cake. Bob sa...id they were lovely and even Heather approved of the group picture, although she sniffed at all the others, but Barbara simply couldn’t take them in. They were pictures, that was all, of a day that had receded into insignificance under the impact of this awesome invasion and the endless, yearning need to know what was happening.
After two days, little Mrs Connelly, who lived downstairs, joined in the vigil, calling encouragement – ‘She’s just coming, so she is.’ ‘She’s on her way.’ ‘I can see her.’ – and crooning commiserations when the wanted letter still wasn’t delivered.MoreLess
On the first day she had a long letter from Joan, which she glanced at and didn’t read. On the second, a card from Becky and a parcel addressed to Mr & Mrs Steven Wilkins which turned out to contain an album full of wedding photographs, neatly arranged from a blurred shot of their scamper up the Town Hall steps to a perfect close-up of their cardboard cake. Bob sa...id they were lovely and even Heather approved of the group picture, although she sniffed at all the others, but Barbara simply couldn’t take them in. They were pictures, that was all, of a day that had receded into insignificance under the impact of this awesome invasion and the endless, yearning need to know what was happening.
After two days, little Mrs Connelly, who lived downstairs, joined in the vigil, calling encouragement – ‘She’s just coming, so she is.’ ‘She’s on her way.’ ‘I can see her.’ – and crooning commiserations when the wanted letter still wasn’t delivered.MoreLess
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