House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore

Author:Helen Dunmore
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780141924373
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-10-15T21:00:00+00:00

My daughter, he thought. Eeva had taken away the plates again. There was fruit to eat now: preserved gooseberries from last year. Before long, this season’s would ripen. Minna ate steadily. If only we could see the marks that our lives leave on us, he thought, we’d be more tender with one another.

She’d be gone tomorrow. He longed to smoke. As soon as they’d had their coffee he’d go and walk in the garden. It was the best time. Evening light, the scent of tobacco, the pale moths starting to fly. Most especially, he loved the sweet, pure fragrance of tobacco when he first lit his cigarette. He would go and walk in the garden and think about Eeva, where no one could see him.

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