The Accidental Mother
“Like Edmund Hillary reaching the summit of Everest or Neil Armstrong playing golf on the moon. Those were, she knew, difficult, almost impossible, and world-changing, humanity-inspiring journeys. However, she was also entirely convinced that never in the history of mankind had anyone taken a journey so tiring, depressing, and remorselessly irritating as the journey she was taking to Cornwall on that cold and rainy day.A real test of human endurance, Sophie thought, was a daylong car drive with a car-phobic three-year-old, a know-it-all, often-annoyingly-correct six-year-old, and their long-lost, emotionally confused, irritatingly attractive father. And she had come to that conclusion only forty-five minutes into the trip.It was dusk when they drove into St. Ives. The optimistically anticipated six-hour trip had stretched into an excruciating eight, and at last, the car was quiet. Izzy had finally fallen asleep about twenty minutes earlier, and Louis and Bella had fallen silent for an ...entirely different reason, Sophie guessed.MoreLess
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