Night in Eden
“Since leaving Britain, she'd written Uncle Edward only one other letter, which she'd managed to send from Cape Town. A sailor who couldn't write had dictated a letter for his mother to her, and in exchange he'd promised to see that her letter went out with his. But she'd never really been sure he'd kept his promise.
That first letter had been hard enough to write. To avoid dwelling on the miseries of life on the transport ship, she'd filled her page with talk of Philip, telling Madeline all abo...ut her new baby brother. Because it was really Madeline to whom she wrote, Madeline she was desperate to keep from forgetting about her, Madeline whose face she held in her mind now as she described the beauty of the harbor at Sydney, the vivid colors of the birds that flickered through the tops of the gums, the cuddly looking little animal that Hayden told her was called a koala, which she'd seen sleeping in a tree fork.
It was easier by far to tell Madeline about the clear blue Australian sky than to tell her about the muddy grave that held her baby brother now.MoreLess
That first letter had been hard enough to write. To avoid dwelling on the miseries of life on the transport ship, she'd filled her page with talk of Philip, telling Madeline all abo...ut her new baby brother. Because it was really Madeline to whom she wrote, Madeline she was desperate to keep from forgetting about her, Madeline whose face she held in her mind now as she described the beauty of the harbor at Sydney, the vivid colors of the birds that flickered through the tops of the gums, the cuddly looking little animal that Hayden told her was called a koala, which she'd seen sleeping in a tree fork.
It was easier by far to tell Madeline about the clear blue Australian sky than to tell her about the muddy grave that held her baby brother now.MoreLess
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