Best of Friends by Cathy Kelly

Author:Cathy Kelly [Kelly, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Psychological Fiction, Domestic Fiction, Women, Psychological, Female Friendship, Ireland, Women - Ireland
ISBN: 9780743490252
Google: Wy0XTWvqzYQC
Amazon: 0743490258
Barnesnoble: 0743490258
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

At home, Abby went into her study and filed the bills she’d paid in the bank. She hated filing with a passion. Tom used to tease her about it, joking that her Declutter fans should see the mess she kept at the bottom of the filing cabinet, a huge pile of paperwork waiting to be assigned a proper place.

“At least I do file,” she’d retort. “I’m not like some people who have the school secretary do it all—yes sir, Mr. Barton, no sir, three bags full, sir!”

“Are you jealous of Miss Peabody?” Tom had demanded, grinning.

“No, but she’s definitely jealous of me,” Abby had replied sweetly. The school secretary had a crush on Tom and blushed from her pearl earrings to her toes every Christmas when he gave her whatever gift Abby had picked out during her high-speed present sweep.

She and Tom had had fun, Abby realised. Despite their recent problems, their marriage had been a good one after all. Looking back made that obvious. It was too late to go back now, though. She hardly saw Tom at the moment. He had moved out a week after Sally’s funeral and was living with Leo, the old colleague he’d met at the funeral. It didn’t make Abby feel any better that she’d been correct in assuming that Leo would be keen to help Tom make the break from married man to separated pal about town. Recently, he’d been staying at Lyonnais for the odd weekday night while Abby was away filming. Then at the weekends, he came to see Jess, and Abby did her grocery shopping then, leaving them on their own because she knew Tom didn’t want to see her. She’d tried to ask Jess how she felt about this split, but Jess didn’t seem to want to talk about it.

“Leave me alone, Mum,” she’d said wearily whenever Abby had tried to raise the subject.

And Abby, who’d remembered what she’d been like as a teenager—self-contained, quiet, unwilling to talk about her feelings—knew that pushing Jess would not work. Time, she hoped, would be a great healer. She would do her best to make Jess feel loved, and wait for her daughter to come to her. Perhaps with time, she and Jess could become close again. Perhaps.

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