Freia Lockhart's Summer Of Awful (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
He’s led back from his fifth trip by an exasperated-looking nurse. “Just stay put please, Mr Lockhart,” she says, guiding him to the couch in front of the TV. “I promise someone will come and get you as soon as your wife is back.” “Sorry,” says Dad, but his eyes are resentful. It’s the same expression Ziggy gets when Mum forces him to agree not to do something stupid, like jumping off the roof into next door’s pool. I try to ignore Dad’s incessant foot tapping and sighing for the next forty minutes. I’ve exhausted the magazines and moved on to a jigsaw that I’m beginning to suspect is made up of assorted pieces from two separate puzzles, unless there’s a Jungle Book story in which Mowgli meets Mona Lisa that I don’t know about. Finally, a woman wearing a pink Volunteer badge comes to get us. On the way to Mum’s room she introduces herself as Jenny. “Are you going to be looking after my mum?” I ask, trying to ascertain how much patient care volunteers might be responsible for.
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