Imago Bird (2013)
“She lived in Suffolk, in a cottage, with a man much older than herself. I had not met this man. He was another of the things that my mother and father did not much talk about: not, I think, because he was so much older than my sister, but because they could use this as an excuse not to have to talk about something about which there was not much to be said anyway.
My sister is quite a lot older than I. But we had been close to each other as children.
I sometimes think that my sister and I are th...e opposites of the people who come from the same egg and are always trying to find one another again: we seem always to be trying to get away, but it is with each other that we feel at home.
My sister met me at the railway station. We sat in her small car while she tried to get it into reverse. Then after a time she said ‘Could you walk ahead of me on the pavement please with a red flag or something?’ When she drove she leaned close to the steering-wheel and stared ahead as if her dark eyes might be a cow-catcher to pick up people and deposit them on the sidewalk.MoreLess
My sister is quite a lot older than I. But we had been close to each other as children.
I sometimes think that my sister and I are th...e opposites of the people who come from the same egg and are always trying to find one another again: we seem always to be trying to get away, but it is with each other that we feel at home.
My sister met me at the railway station. We sat in her small car while she tried to get it into reverse. Then after a time she said ‘Could you walk ahead of me on the pavement please with a red flag or something?’ When she drove she leaned close to the steering-wheel and stared ahead as if her dark eyes might be a cow-catcher to pick up people and deposit them on the sidewalk.MoreLess
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