Others were using a crude form of pestle and mortar, grinding down husks to make a powder, which they mixed with water into a dough. The dough was then kneaded and flattened out with their hands, before being cooked on a frying pan over a fire, the result being a crusty sort of flat bread. Emmy a...
To have that sort of luxury was rare in her life, especially as in the outback water was more precious than gold. Afterwards, she’d slipped into her pyjamas and sat on the big comfortable bed, flicking through the television channels. She’d called Anthony as soon as she’d arrived in her room, kno...
She and Flynn were friends and colleagues and it wasn’t uncommon for friends and colleagues to carpool. So many people working here did it. Being with Flynn, constantly, was nothing to be remarked on. ‘Whoa, Reggie,’ Ingrid, the general surgical registrar, commented quietly as they waited in the ...
‘Caffeine, Kaycee. Wake him up.’ ‘I’m on it.’ Kaycee was already injecting the caffeine into Philip’s drip in order to stimulate a response. ‘His hypothalamus is too immature. It’s not receiving the signals, not computing,’ Ray murmured as he brought the intubation trolley over. ‘Oxygen desaturat...
You’ve already given me so much today and I don’t want to overstay my welcome.’‘Impossible.’‘Still, I can’t thank you enough, Sean.’ Her face was radiant as she looked at him and he clenched his jaw and shoved his hands into his trouser pockets to stop himself from hauling her close into a warm a...
Several of the department’s staff were off work, sick with colds and various forms of flu. It was a strong strain of bug which had hit the hospital hard this year and her department wasn’t the only one suffering. Meetings had been cancelled, clinics were bursting at the seams and yet the hospital...
‘Your home is enormous.’ She couldn’t help the words that came from her mouth unbidden. Dex glanced at her, about to tell her that this wasn’t his home, that it was simply a place owned by his adoptive parents, but the words died on his lips. It was his home. It was the place he’d called home for...