There were no clocks ticking out the time of the universe, no radio broadcasting one-sided merriment, no sound of a neighbour’s baby crying. It was dark, too, the evening dying beyond the dense foliage that shaded the house even in the brightest of noonday suns. And there were scents . . . A ramb...
He couldn't decide where this impression originated, wondering if it was something that Helena had said, although in truth he could not pinpoint any precise words she had used to suggest it. The reality was different. Millicent Sweet's father was large; large and composed,...
With increasing numbers of cases of heatstroke, especially amongst the elderly and those under two, surgeries were always busy and we were making huge numbers of house calls; something that in itself was becoming a problem. Every day now, by about one in the afternoon, the tarmac of the roads and...
I didn’t know. I had tried ringing several times throughout the morning, but had met on every occasion the seemingly indomitable stubbornness of the constabulary. In a voice remarkably similar to Percy Bailey’s, the policeman who answered the phone refused repeatedly to answer any of my questions...