Venom And the River (2013)
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Was Ida May Turnbull a writer or a sorceress?
Leigh moved about the cottage, touching the relics that had so moved both Marti and Peach and which, no doubt, would fetch a nice price on eBay. Why were some of them even still in the cottage? The blue vase, the spoon rest, the painting—each was important enough to be mentioned in the woman’s books, so why hadn’t she taken them with her when she left Pepin?
She sat in the big brown chair and studied the Red Lady. Marti was right: the nipples wer...e astounding. “I’ve always loved Matisse,” she said into a mug of tea she’d brewed as soon as she’d returned from the meeting.
What was the committee planning now? Three hundred women were soon arriving in town to celebrate a long-dead writer, and she was living in the bull’s eye of their obsession. Perhaps she shouldn’t have left the meeting so abruptly. Perhaps she should have read through the agenda she’d left on the table. Had one of the items been “Group assault on the cottage”?MoreLess
Was Ida May Turnbull a writer or a sorceress?
Leigh moved about the cottage, touching the relics that had so moved both Marti and Peach and which, no doubt, would fetch a nice price on eBay. Why were some of them even still in the cottage? The blue vase, the spoon rest, the painting—each was important enough to be mentioned in the woman’s books, so why hadn’t she taken them with her when she left Pepin?
She sat in the big brown chair and studied the Red Lady. Marti was right: the nipples wer...e astounding. “I’ve always loved Matisse,” she said into a mug of tea she’d brewed as soon as she’d returned from the meeting.
What was the committee planning now? Three hundred women were soon arriving in town to celebrate a long-dead writer, and she was living in the bull’s eye of their obsession. Perhaps she shouldn’t have left the meeting so abruptly. Perhaps she should have read through the agenda she’d left on the table. Had one of the items been “Group assault on the cottage”?MoreLess
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