Family of Women
“Tell her to get out!’ Linda scowled, perched on the toilet seat with her copy of Great Expectations.
‘Lin, hurry up – I need to go!’ ‘Linda!’ she heard Mom’s voice. ‘Out – now!’ It had always been the same, as soon as she could read. Going to Nana’s meant perching in the outside lav with her books, the one place you could get a bit of peace.
Since Nana moved, after the war, to a two-up two-down in Spring Street, they had an outside toilet not shared with anyone. It felt like her place, with the... cobwebs and slug trails and the nail with squares of newspaper hanging, or sometimes bits of coloured tissue from round the oranges and apples begged off the greengrocer. And best of all, the rusty bolt she could pull across and shut everyone else out – especially Joyce. From there she’d travelled to other worlds in her head with comics and some of the books Johnny Vetch lent her. Most of Johnny&="0 Ao;d t heightrsquo;s books were about rocks and fossils and birds, but he did once hand her a dog-eared copy of Treasure Island.MoreLess
‘Lin, hurry up – I need to go!’ ‘Linda!’ she heard Mom’s voice. ‘Out – now!’ It had always been the same, as soon as she could read. Going to Nana’s meant perching in the outside lav with her books, the one place you could get a bit of peace.
Since Nana moved, after the war, to a two-up two-down in Spring Street, they had an outside toilet not shared with anyone. It felt like her place, with the... cobwebs and slug trails and the nail with squares of newspaper hanging, or sometimes bits of coloured tissue from round the oranges and apples begged off the greengrocer. And best of all, the rusty bolt she could pull across and shut everyone else out – especially Joyce. From there she’d travelled to other worlds in her head with comics and some of the books Johnny Vetch lent her. Most of Johnny&="0 Ao;d t heightrsquo;s books were about rocks and fossils and birds, but he did once hand her a dog-eared copy of Treasure Island.MoreLess
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