Haweswater by Sarah Hall

Author:Sarah Hall [Sarah Hall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571267637
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Jack Liggett holds the warm, dry body on the dark lunar banks of the river. He is remembering the importance of money, has devoted much of his life to it, and remembering the smell of rotten vegetables in the kitchen of his father’s stack-house, the interruption of fists against human matter. The delivery of unrelated anger. And swinging his own small fists at effervescent corners of space, kicking his feet wildly in the slop on the kitchen floor, the blackness finally congealing. The past unfurls. His hand between Janet’s breasts tracks the minimal double-tick of her heart as it lifts outwards, shudders in. Above it her sternum dulls the echo of the movement of manufactured blood. His forefinger slopes upwards, pointing towards the back of her neck. If a bullet were released there it would travel through everything vital, bringing in its wake a river of red.

In his arms, Janet turns, restless in the summer humidity. The river also moves past, sounding out rocks and inclines. She interprets a blunt, introspective mood stirring in her lover. His limbs have tightened a fraction across her. She places a hand behind his head, moves her face down to his.

– I think you understand yourself too well. It should be more of a quarrel. You need to leave room for a portion of uncertainty, space to get away from yourself now and then.

– Yes. You speak so … never mind. I want you to know that if there was any way … this valley. It’s too late now. And I am sorry.

– Don’t. It’s better to just keep ahead. Because I can’t stand the thought of being as I was before you came. There is only one way it can be between us. I believe that.

A hand on the base of his skull dragging him up. The smell of decay in the kitchen. And sounds like those of an animal being dragged to the roadside, awful, coming from his own mouth. He closes the memory, as if putting away a book.

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