The Hardie Inheritance (2014)
“Life at day school was busy and pleasant enough, but she returned each afternoon to a home which had been drained of its normal light-heartedness.
Jean-Paul had received his call-up papers and disappeared. Whenever Grace was not busy carving she was even more busily working in the vegetable garden. If Trish came to look for her, whether to have a chat or merely report that she was home, she was handed a fork or trowel and set to work weeding or planting out seedlings; it was impossible to have ...a proper conversation.
As for Mrs Hardie, she seemed to be fading away. All her meals were carried to her room, and she ate little of what she was offered. Most of her time was spent turning the sheets of her portfolios of paintings, staring in silence at the faces of her children when they were young and at the sketches she had made during her honeymoon journey in China fifty years earlier.
So there was no one for Trish to talk to at home: nothing for her to do except homework and gardening. Nothing to look forward to, either.MoreLess
Jean-Paul had received his call-up papers and disappeared. Whenever Grace was not busy carving she was even more busily working in the vegetable garden. If Trish came to look for her, whether to have a chat or merely report that she was home, she was handed a fork or trowel and set to work weeding or planting out seedlings; it was impossible to have ...a proper conversation.
As for Mrs Hardie, she seemed to be fading away. All her meals were carried to her room, and she ate little of what she was offered. Most of her time was spent turning the sheets of her portfolios of paintings, staring in silence at the faces of her children when they were young and at the sketches she had made during her honeymoon journey in China fifty years earlier.
So there was no one for Trish to talk to at home: nothing for her to do except homework and gardening. Nothing to look forward to, either.MoreLess
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