She was presently arranging some green leaves and berries in a jam jar on the window sill. ‘Only in the canteen,’ said Margot, who was sitting on the bed, her head covered in metal curlers. ‘Rules are rules.’ The three of them were sharing a fruit cake that Lizzie had brought back from Bristol. M...
‘With or without?’ she asked, as the piping hot liquid poured from the urn. Charlotte was halfway through the details of a man called Lech Rostok from Danzig when something about the two men fighting suddenly hit her. She sat bolt upright. The papers she’d been reading fell from her hand. ‘Polish...
‘Never mind. We’ll head towards the lake before this mist comes down more heavily. We’ll circle it then head past the stable yard and home. Everyone in agreement?’ Lydia declared that she would go where everyone else was going. ‘The new girl agrees,’ stated Sylvester, a small cigar gripped at the...
That’s what I advise. Plenty of rest.’ Miss Burton fixed the rotund man who had just examined her, with eyes warm with compassion but also bright with intelligence. ‘I’m not a fool, doctor. I know my days are numbered.’ She was lying in the same bed she’d slept in since childhood. Her mother had ...
It was the third time she’d checked it since getting herself ready to go out. Again, like she had on the previous occasions, she slid it back into her handbag next to the sanitary towels and the clean pair of knickers Mrs Riley had suggested she bring. Closing her eyes, she wished that her period...
For one thing he felt certain he’d seen her somewhere before, but no matter how much he racked his brains, he couldn’t think where. It could be that he’d dreamed about her when bone weary following yet another push, another battle full of noise, blood and bodies blasted to pieces before his eyes....