The Fantastic Book Of Everybody's Secrets (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
I TOLD YOU IT WAS A MISTAKE.’ She is entitled to be angry. All morning she has been considering other people’s feelings, looking at things from points of view that oppose her own, breathing deeply, counting to ten, counting her blessings, thinking about the grand scheme of things rather than the tiny speck of time dust that is insignificant today. She has guarded her irritation to make sure no part of it escapes, like a parent minding a defiant, grounded teenager. She said nothing when the men from Bonners brought the wrong colour carpet. She agreed that marble was ‘as near as dammit’ to shell. She nodded when the fitter, Keith Halliday, told her that the bottoms of her doors were too low for the thick new carpet, that it was not his job to take off the doors, plane them down and reattach them. She smoked a cigarette to calm herself, then phoned Sol Barber, a joiner she had used before, who agreed to come straight away. She knows nothing about the process of removing a door, but oil must be involved, because Sol Barber managed to spill some on her new marble-coloured carpet.
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