French Leave by Anna Gavalda

Author:Anna Gavalda [Gavalda, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781609459543
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

Simon stretched his legs while we got changed. I’d bought a magnificent sari in the Passage Brady right next to my house. It was turquoise, embroidered with gold thread and pearls and tiny bells. I had a little bodice with sleeves, a very tight straight long skirt slit high on the thigh, and a sort of huge cloth to wrap it all up in.

It was gorgeous.

Dangly earrings, all the amulets from Rajasthan around my neck, ten bangles on my right wrist and nearly twice that on my left.

“You look great,” said Lola. “Incredible. Only you could get away with something like that. You’ve got such a lovely belly, all flat and muscular . . . ”

“Hey,” I said, feeling radiant but keeping a lid on it all the same, “six floors without an elevator . . . ”

“Having kids has put my belly button between parentheses . . . You’ll be careful, won’t you? You’ll use cream every day, and—”

I shrugged. My little spyglass couldn’t see that far.

“Can you button me up?” she chirped, turning her back to me.

Lola was wearing her black faille dress for the umpteenth time. Very sober, sleeveless, with a round neckline and a million tiny cassock buttons all the way down the back.

“You haven’t gone to too much expense for dear Hubert’s wedding,” I said.

She turned around with a smile.

“Hey . . . ”

“What?”

“How much do you think I paid for the hat?”

“Two hundred?”

She shrugged.

“How much?”

“I can’t tell you,” she laughed, “it’s too awful.”

“Stop laughing, stupid, I can’t do the buttons . . . ”

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