Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie

Author:Luan Goldie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

The rain picks up and the crowd of onlookers begin to disperse, apart from the most distraught of family members and macabre of voyeurs. The news crews retreat to their cars and vans. The sliding door of one remains open and inside a heavily made-up woman sits shoeless and laughs with a cameraman over polystyrene boxes of chips.

The woman in the yellow headscarf and her husband pass the bench. The man nods at Malachi, his shirt darkened and slick from the rain.

Malachi sits on the bench and waits for an answer.

His name is called by a voice he doesn’t recognise and for a split second he imagines it’s Pamela’s dad, come to tell him that he’s made a mistake, that she wasn’t really in the flat and had gone back to Portishead after all.

‘Malachi?’

Coming towards him is Harris, the man he never knew existed until yesterday. His hair has been pushed off his large sun-kissed forehead and Malachi catches a flash, in that way you sometimes do, of what someone looked like when they were young.

‘So glad I found you.’ He leans forward and puts his hands on Malachi’s knees before he says, ‘They found him. They found Tristan.’

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