Anybody Out There - Marian Keyes (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Marian Keyes For Tony Prologue There was no return address on the envelope, which was a little weird. Already I was slightly uneasy. Even more so when I saw my name and address... The sensible woman would not open this. The sensible woman would throw it in the bin and walk away. But apart from a short period between the ages of twenty-nine and thirty, when had I ever been sensible? So I opened it. It was a card, a watercolor of a bowl of droopy-looking flowers. And flimsy enough that I could feel something inside. Money? I thought. A check? But I was just being sarcastic, even though there was no one there to hear me, and anyway, I was only saying it in my own head. And indeed, there was something inside: a photograph...Why was I being sent this? I already had loads...Then I saw that I was wrong. It wasn't him at all. And suddenly I understood everything. Part 1 1 M um flung open the sitting-room door and announced, "Morning, Anna, time for your tablets." She tried to march briskly, like nurses she'd seen on hospital dramas, but there was so much furniture in the room that instead she had to wrestle her way toward me.
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