The Cuckoo's Child (2014)
“Once again, the ladies deposited me at the side of the road and waved as they drove off, and I stood and felt the stillness wash back as the car sailed round the corner.
I was on my own this time. The cows had moved to another pasture, and there was no sign of life in the far fields, not even a cry from a hidden cuckoo. The rotting net still drooped from its post, and the water lay dark in the pools, trickling sluggishly over the steps, but I was in no mood for elegiac reflection and hurrie...d through the wood and the stable block, anxious to meet Magnus.
Black clouds were massing, marching up from the southwest, swelling importantly as they came. The louring sky darkened the interior of the greenhouse, giving it a green underwater cast. Magnus sat in his office waiting for me, a shadowy bulk in the dim light.
“Right on time then,” he said. “Well, let’s get this over with.”
He led me through an archway to a grassy area bordered by a row of stone cottages.MoreLess
I was on my own this time. The cows had moved to another pasture, and there was no sign of life in the far fields, not even a cry from a hidden cuckoo. The rotting net still drooped from its post, and the water lay dark in the pools, trickling sluggishly over the steps, but I was in no mood for elegiac reflection and hurrie...d through the wood and the stable block, anxious to meet Magnus.
Black clouds were massing, marching up from the southwest, swelling importantly as they came. The louring sky darkened the interior of the greenhouse, giving it a green underwater cast. Magnus sat in his office waiting for me, a shadowy bulk in the dim light.
“Right on time then,” he said. “Well, let’s get this over with.”
He led me through an archway to a grassy area bordered by a row of stone cottages.MoreLess
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