1993 - In The Place Of Fallen Leaves - Plot & Excerpts
When the reservoirs up behind Christow dried up, strange species of fish, the like of which had never been caught by the lugubrious fishermen who came out from Exeter on Sundays, were beached on the black silt: flat, rhomboidal fish so much like children’s drawings even the warden doubted whether they had ever really been alive, as well as, so it was said, the still squirming freshwater eels of the Fens. Back on our side of the Valley at the bottomless quarry pool the widowman heron was joined for one brief visit by a crane that glided over the pine woods to land like a cotton sheet. When I mentioned it to grandmother she told me about the young 14th Viscount, Johnathan’s grandfather, who in the inter-war years designed and constructed in the estate stables a prototype aeroplane. The entire population of the village gathered around the beech tree to watch him fly from the ridge above the quarry pool. They listened in disbelief as he explained the direction of his flight and pointed down the Valley towards Christow, to a field where champagne was on ice.
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