Ricochet Baby (2012)
“Young mothers in her street walk by wheeling prams, skirts whipping around their knees. She looks at them for signs, trying to gauge their happiness, their capabilities, whether they are coping with the world. Some of them look tired, but none of them is distraught, although on once a week visits to the supermarket she sometimes hears women shouting at their children when they have done nothing wrong. It is not anger that she feels. Roberta does not want to shout at Nathan. She is not sure that... she feels anything.
Even if she is lucky, as the Plunket nurse says, the dark mood she experienced in the hospital grows deeper. In the mornings when she wakes, her eyelids won’t open straight away, glued together by dread. She rubs them to get rid of the sticky substance beneath, but there’s nothing there, just remorseless light when finally she begins to face each day. The person she remembers being, before this, before pregnancy, before Nathan, has gone. The waviness in her hair disappears, the small curling fronds around her face.MoreLess
Even if she is lucky, as the Plunket nurse says, the dark mood she experienced in the hospital grows deeper. In the mornings when she wakes, her eyelids won’t open straight away, glued together by dread. She rubs them to get rid of the sticky substance beneath, but there’s nothing there, just remorseless light when finally she begins to face each day. The person she remembers being, before this, before pregnancy, before Nathan, has gone. The waviness in her hair disappears, the small curling fronds around her face.MoreLess
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