The Village Show (Tales From Turnham Malpas) - Plot & Excerpts
She was slimmer, she was livelier, she was kinder and more sympathetic, and above all she didn’t look down on everyone as she used to when she first came back to Turnham Malpas. The change in her had been sudden and nothing short of miraculous. Malcolm the milkman even swore he’d seen her out running early one morning, but they’d all dismissed that as fantasy. In the rectory they put it down to the accessibility of the pool and the fitness rooms at the Big House. In the Store they attributed it to her having a lover; it must have been quite five minutes before anyone was capable of speech, they’d laughed till tears were running down their cheeks. Sheila put it down to the voluntary work Louise had recently taken up with the homeless in Culworth. Though Sheila had to confess she didn’t know where the homeless were in Culworth, because it didn’t seem quite that kind of place. But coming home in the early hours after taking the soup and bread rolls round was certainly exhausting.
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