The Best In Blountmere Street (The Blountmere Street Series Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
We’re both lucky.’ Mum doesn’t sound convincing. As she usually does, Mum’s accepted Dad’s recent bouts of sulky silence as if it’s all right he doesn’t speak for days on end. She pretends it doesn’t matter he snatches whatever’s handed to him without even a grunt. She pretends not to notice he eats his food as if he doesn’t know or care what it is she’s cooked for him. Even so, I’ve noticed she’s changed since the screws episode. It’s difficult to explain how. As if she’s at last realised that whatever she does for him she’ll never gain his affection or approval. She still boasts to the neighbours about “her Les” but I sense Mum’s loyalty is coming at a cost she’s beginning to count.We shelter in a shop doorway as we wait for a bus, and watch as Mr Stannard, the Addingtons’ lodger, and Miss Lorimore, our neighbour, mince their way across the icy road. Fred Stannard has Dolly Addingtons’ string shopping bag on one arm and Miss Lorimore on the other.‘They're getting very friendly. Did you see the way he looked at her?’ Mum stares after them. ‘And she was holding his arm, too!
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