Night Waking by Sarah Moss

Author:Sarah Moss [Moss, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary
ISBN: 9781847083746
Google: AQ2IIFjg75wC
Amazon: 184708270X
Barnesnoble: 184708270X
Goodreads: 9959239
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘Good Lord, your children are still up.’

‘They are now,’ I said. ‘Excuse me, I need to reassure Moth.’

She stayed in the doorway.

‘They only scream for attention, you know.’

‘That’s why I attend.’

She didn’t move.

‘They have to learn that they can’t always have what they want when they want it. He’ll be calling for you all night if you go every time, you’ll never get any sleep.’

I didn’t meet Giles’s eyes.

‘Why can’t we have what we want?’ demanded Raphael. He was wearing a pink T-shirt of mine which I hadn’t seen for some time and his swimming trunks, which have fish on them and cannot be passed off as pyjamas to any kind of police.

‘Because sometimes the grown-ups have other things to do. Anyway, life’s not like that, and the sooner you accept it, the better.’

‘Oh,’ said Raph. ‘Mine is.’

‘Come on,’ I said. ‘Bed. And we’ll settle Moth again.’

‘We saw you had a visitor, earlier,’ I heard her say as we went upstairs. ‘Nothing wrong, I hope?’

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