A Charm Of Powerful Trouble (2002) - Plot & Excerpts
‘Oh, I never talk about what happened in the past. I'm only interested in what's happening now,’ she said. They sat in the sunroom off the kitchen, Em in her favourite floral armchair, Emma in a low-slung cane chair painted bright orange, though the paint was cracked and peeling away. She could see why Em lived in only a part of the house; it was simply too big for her. She confined herself to the kitchen and sunroom, her own bedroom and the verandahs, and these were kept as up-to-date and cheerful as she could manage, with a new radio on a shelf in a corner of the kitchen, and current magazines and newspapers piled untidily in a rack in the sunroom. On the whole Em wasn't a great talker; she was content for Emma to simply keep her company. She liked to see Emma doing whatever she pleased, which was mostly dreaming away the afternoons in the garden with her sketchbook. Emma often caught her intelligent, beaky gaze resting on her with approval. But sometimes Em looked as dreamy and as wistful as the child she'd once been.
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