Killing a Unicorn (2012)
“They’d said they would very likely want to see her again, and she’s steeled herself for another interrogation. She’s ready for it, but she hasn’t prepared herself for the shock that’s waiting for her when she at last finds Alyssa, sitting in Bibi’s kitchen with a barely touched plate of toast on the table in front of her.
‘But Jasie wouldn’t ever have gone off, on his own, just like that!’ she repeats for the umpteenth time, later, after she’s prised Alyssa away from Rene Brooker’s lamentations..., though even as she says it she isn’t sure whether that’s reassurance or not, imagining the alternatives. It’s a large, well-shaped hand she’s holding, brown and tough as old shoe leather, the nails filed short, with rough cuticles due to gardening that no amount of hand-cream can soften. What a capable hand, but how cold it is! As if realizing this, Alyssa withdraws it gently before standing up and beginning to pace about again. She seems incapable of sitting still.MoreLess
‘But Jasie wouldn’t ever have gone off, on his own, just like that!’ she repeats for the umpteenth time, later, after she’s prised Alyssa away from Rene Brooker’s lamentations..., though even as she says it she isn’t sure whether that’s reassurance or not, imagining the alternatives. It’s a large, well-shaped hand she’s holding, brown and tough as old shoe leather, the nails filed short, with rough cuticles due to gardening that no amount of hand-cream can soften. What a capable hand, but how cold it is! As if realizing this, Alyssa withdraws it gently before standing up and beginning to pace about again. She seems incapable of sitting still.MoreLess
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