The Kirilov Star (2011)
“The woman would not let her have him. In the tussle the baby fell to the floor with a sickening crump. Horrified, Lydia looked down through her empty arms and realised he was dead. His head was at an unnatural angle, his limbs all floppy and yet his blue eyes were open and reproached her. The shock of it woke her and for a moment she thought she was still in Russia.
She felt the dried-on tears she had shed in her sleep and looked about her at the familiar room with its warm carpet and pretty curtains. Her sheets were white, not the dirty grey of those at Kirilhor, and instead of scratchy blankets, those on her bed were soft. She was safe at Upstone Hall. Yuri wasn’t dead; he was alive, Alex had told her so.
She passed the back of her hand across her eyes in an effort to bring herself back to the present. Yuri wasn’t dead; her nightmare was false. He was alive and well and for that she should be thankful. She had written to him at Kirilhor soon after her last visit to Alex, exp...laining why and how she had left him in Russia and how she loved him and thought of him constantly, but her letters had come back unopened and covered in official stamps.MoreLess
She felt the dried-on tears she had shed in her sleep and looked about her at the familiar room with its warm carpet and pretty curtains. Her sheets were white, not the dirty grey of those at Kirilhor, and instead of scratchy blankets, those on her bed were soft. She was safe at Upstone Hall. Yuri wasn’t dead; he was alive, Alex had told her so.
She passed the back of her hand across her eyes in an effort to bring herself back to the present. Yuri wasn’t dead; her nightmare was false. He was alive and well and for that she should be thankful. She had written to him at Kirilhor soon after her last visit to Alex, exp...laining why and how she had left him in Russia and how she loved him and thought of him constantly, but her letters had come back unopened and covered in official stamps.MoreLess
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