Married Love
“It wasn’t a satisfactory job, only part time and not well paid. She was twenty-two. She had just finished her degree in English literature and should have been building towards some sort of career; she had planned to move to Manchester where she had been at university. But everything like that had had to be put on hold, while at home her family melted down into a kind of madness. It was a relief just to leave the madness behind and drive across the moors four mornings a week to the centre sever...al miles away. She had the use of a car, because for the moment her mum wasn’t going to work.
The moors that winter were often under a crust of snow – not enough to blanket them in white but a mean dirty frosting on the hard earth and wilted shrubs. Ally didn’t mind the bitter weather. Her guilt at getting out even for a few hours would fall away as she drove, leaving the town behind. Sometimes when she parked at the centre, crunching into the gravelled space between the kitchen and the high black garden wall, where the stones were mossy and ferns grew in the cracks, she was really all right for a moment.MoreLess
The moors that winter were often under a crust of snow – not enough to blanket them in white but a mean dirty frosting on the hard earth and wilted shrubs. Ally didn’t mind the bitter weather. Her guilt at getting out even for a few hours would fall away as she drove, leaving the town behind. Sometimes when she parked at the centre, crunching into the gravelled space between the kitchen and the high black garden wall, where the stones were mossy and ferns grew in the cracks, she was really all right for a moment.MoreLess
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