In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton

Author:Tim Winton
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781742537344
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

I sat up in the dark, shivering with cold and memory.

Running, one boy sees over his shoulder the ball of light cometing around the yard, the cat afire and screaming like an evil spirit, cutting back across its own path.

THE MORNING was cool and overcast and Ronnie spent the day with Jaccob. They helped each other in a stiff, self-conscious way with the chores, first at his place and then at hers, where the cow had to be disentangled from the fence it had demolished in mad pain from an engorged udder.

In the shed where she milked there was a big bench stacked with picture frames she’d half-stripped of their ugly red varnish. Jaccob, who was watching her with a look that she took to be amusement, picked up a frame and ran his hand over it.

‘Oak.’

Ronnie peered along the length of the cow.

‘Found them in an old shop in Balingup. Promised myself I’d do them up one day.’

Hiss of milk. Far away, the petulant song of a crow. Ronnie put her cheek against the warm side of the animal and she began to hum as a strange sadness came upon her. She kind of liked this bloke. He was awkward but not stupid. She was the one who felt stupid.

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