The Missing Person's Guide To Love - Plot & Excerpts
She took a chomp and began to chew as she followed the bookshelf along the wall to the window. She liked to crunch a russet or two on a slow day. The girl called Leila had started it, and she’d got it from Jo March, who liked to steal away with half a dozen russets when she read a good book. Leila always had an apple in her hand when Maggie passed her on the stairs or in the hall. She left little brown apple cores around the house, like snail shells, on the edges of tables, on piles of books. No wonder there had always been mice in the house. Maggie could hardly hear the birds in the garden for the apple-crunching inside her head but Leila had only made a sound with the first crunch. After that, she ate silently. She was a strange girl. Maggie ate up the apple core in two large bites, dropped the stalk into the fruit bowl. Her eyes rested on the framed photographs of the girls. She stroked the glass of her favourite. This was the picture she always returned to, the two girls at the top of the path on the hill.
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