Finding Jennifer Jones by Anne Cassidy

Author:Anne Cassidy [Anne Cassidy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781471402296
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Published: 2014-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

Exeter was busy. Kate had bought a few things and was feeling tired. She went to a cashpoint and withdrew money. Then she headed for a coffee bar and sat down, placing her bags on the seat opposite. She drank her coffee and stared through the window at people walking by. Her eyes followed a young woman passing, in a hurry, patting at her hair. Kate touched her own hair. For most of the first year of university it had been short and blonde but then she had allowed it to revert to its natural colour and had grown it. It sat on her shoulders and was easy to manage. When she moved to London she would have to have it cut and styled.

There were other things she would need to do. It wasn’t just a case of dressing up, having a new wardrobe or different hairstyle. In order to establish a life somewhere else she would need a place to stay. She’d already looked on the web at house shares, focusing on the section where people sublet their rooms for short periods. A couple of places appealed to her. One for two months and one for six weeks. Both of them sounded as though they needed someone urgently; that way there would be less chance for them to investigate references.

In less than a week she would be in a B&B in London going to see the short lets and starting a new life. All she needed was a new identity.

Before getting the bus back to Exmouth, she went into a bookshop to buy an A–Z of London. She walked around the non-fiction section and found a small paperback edition. Holding it in her hand she drifted a little, browsing the displays and the shelves. She found herself drawn towards the cookery section. There were piles of cookery books everywhere, many of them discounted, with photos on the front of chefs who had become celebrities.

Kate had a sudden memory of sitting in a kitchen in Croydon with Rosie, who she had lived with for nearly nine months two years before. Rosie’s kitchen had been the hub of her flat. Even though it was tiny everything happened there. There was always some baking going on, the smell of cooking wafting through the rooms. Kate’s favourite had been Rosie’s biscuits and her fairy cakes which her mother, Kathy, an Irish woman, called wee buns. They sat in tiny pleated paper cups, smaller than muffins, only a couple of mouthfuls of warm sponge topped with butter icing. It only took Rosie a moment to throw some eggs, flour and sugar into a bowl and mix it as Kate (Alice, then) separated the pleated paper cases, ready for the mix to be spooned in.

Kate picked up one of the glossy hardback books on the table in front of her. It was heavy, substantial, hundreds of recipes and photographs of dishes. On the cover was an attractive young woman, her hair carelessly pulled up on top in a bun, strands of it escaping and curling round her jaw.

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