Mary Kate by Nadine Dorries

Author:Nadine Dorries [Dorries, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786697523
Publisher: Head of Zeus

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Michael parked his car in the Dublin port car park and removed his bag from the back. The weather had broken without warning and the wind had turned wild. The hinges on his car door creaked in protest as he opened it. ‘Jesus, feck,’ he hissed as he tried to grab the handle and stop the door from being ripped off. The wind fought him and almost won as it whipped across the empty car park, pulling leaves and branches from the trees, tipping over old wooden Guinness barrels planted with purple fuchsias and scattering the flowers and soil like open graves. Holding onto his cap, he raced across to the ticket office. A wooden board that shouted ‘Ice Cream and Cigarettes Sold Here’ swung precariously as he ducked past, and he turned, alarmed, as he heard it crash onto the pavement.

It had been raining for the past hour of his journey, slowing him down and making it difficult for him to see as his windscreen wipers did battle with the torrential downpour. The roads had become treacherous in the first rain following the prolonged spell of hot weather. It didn’t help that it was still dark, the dawn slow to break on account of the storm, and he was tired from having driven all through the night.

He tried to light a cigarette, but the match would not catch and the tissue-thin paper became soaked. He threw the wet tobacco to the ground and shoved the packet back into his pocket. His frustration at the slowness of the journey had made him bad-tempered enough; this was now exacerbated by the sign that greeted him as he reached the ticket office: ‘All Sailings Cancelled Until Further Notice Due to Bad Weather.’

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