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He slows the car and looks over. ‘I did,’ he says. ‘But I wasn’t much use, was I, Sis?’ It is the first time anyone has ever mentioned it. It feels like a terrible thing, being said.
If she blinked, he would take her hand and take her away from this place. This, at least, is what he tells himself. It’s what she once wanted but two people hardly ever want the same thing at any given point in life. It is sometimes the hardest part of being human.
That morning, walking down the main street, buying milk and rashers, he felt like a man.
A wily girl who is half innocence and half intuition,
It’s ten years since the ban on DDT
All my books come together fr
Then she climbed in and spent the rest of her life with a man who would have gone home without her.
She said if she’d had her life to live again, she would never have climbed back into that car.
If only, in her adult life, her unfounded beliefs could be so abruptly disproved. To be an adult was, for the greatest part, to be in darkness.
