Wicked Women
“At least Carrie supposed it to be her grandmother. The apparition, or phantom, or whatever it was, who spoke so lucidly, materialised as a pretty but elderly flat-chested woman with short, brown, carefully waved hair, who wore a straight grey soft dress, which came down to mid-calf level, rather thick stockings, and low-cut shoes with little heels and a strap across the top of the foot.
Carrie worked in the BBC’s Costume Design department and, professional even in her sleep, placed the dress as... being late nineteen twenties or possibly early thirties. Carrie estimated her grandmother’s age at around sixty but trying for fifty; an age, at any rate, that predated Carrie’s life on earth.
Her grandmother had died at the age of eighty-two, when Carrie was eleven; and Carrie’s mother, Kate, had not allowed the child to go to the funeral. Carrie remembered being much put out. She liked to be where the action was, just as much as her mother seemed always to like her not to be. Trouble at home was one of the reasons why now, at twenty-six, and five months pregnant, Carrie cried herself to sleep.MoreLess
Carrie worked in the BBC’s Costume Design department and, professional even in her sleep, placed the dress as... being late nineteen twenties or possibly early thirties. Carrie estimated her grandmother’s age at around sixty but trying for fifty; an age, at any rate, that predated Carrie’s life on earth.
Her grandmother had died at the age of eighty-two, when Carrie was eleven; and Carrie’s mother, Kate, had not allowed the child to go to the funeral. Carrie remembered being much put out. She liked to be where the action was, just as much as her mother seemed always to like her not to be. Trouble at home was one of the reasons why now, at twenty-six, and five months pregnant, Carrie cried herself to sleep.MoreLess
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