Yuki Chan In Brontë Country (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
And having slept while the last trace of daylight drained away unsettles her, as if she’s woken beneath a stone. She pulls on her dressing gown, retrieves her things from the bathroom and mops up the water on the floor in the corridor where she fell. For a minute or two she sits on the edge of the bed, still tired and fuggy. Then she takes out her mother’s blue blouse and silk headscarf, stands before the mirror and puts them on. In the photograph taken outside the parsonage her mother wears the same scarf knotted round her neck. The cream coat is long gone, but the blouse is from the same period, and when she has it on and can feel it soft and sleek against her Yuki imagines the warmth of her flesh somehow reinvigorating the material – putting it in mind of being warmed by her mother’s skin. She washes her face and cleans her teeth at the sink. Pictures her mother doing these same small things next door, with just a wall between them – the two of them leaning in towards each other.
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