Polly's War (2014)
“‘Will you be coming to work tomorrow, as usual?’ he asked.
‘Of course.’ Lucy sounded her surprise for didn’t she have her living to earn?
‘Only I’d like a word.’ He meant about the whispers they’d all clearly heard in chapel but even as he disappeared amongst the crowd she didn’t dare watch him go, too keenly aware of his aunt’s all-seeing eye fixed upon her and her evil tongue still wagging. Lucy contented herself with tugging Sean’s collar into place and hustling Sarah Jane into the waiting car to cover her embarrassment.
The cortege of two funeral cars, hired by Polly to show how they could still hold their heads high, unemployed or not, carried the entire Stockton and Pride family and various close friends along Lower Byrom Street on its way back to Pansy Street.
Benny took no part in the polite attempts at conversation around him, too concerned with his own troubles. He’d loved Big Flo. Hadn’t she spoiled him rotten as a boy for all her sharp tongue, and he’d never meant her any harm.
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