On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Author:Carrie Hope Fletcher [Fletcher, Carrie Hope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780751563153
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2016-07-13T23:00:00+00:00

Jim

James ‘Jim’ Summer was a respectable man from a well-connected family. When his father retired, he would take over the family business, and when his parents finally passed on, he would inherit the Summer fortune and estate. Until then, his father and mother, James and Jane Summer, controlled every move Jim made. His mother even went so far as to lay out his clothes for him each morning.

Although he knew no different, he was aware that there was something wrong with the way the Snows and Summers functioned. From the way they picked their partners to the way they named their children, everything was too coordinated, too pristine. Neither family had any warmth, not even an ember, which led to them being terribly sinister and avoided by most. If it weren’t for the fact that they were incredibly well off, Jim supposed, they probably would have been isolated from society altogether. And the only reason he knew all of this was because one person opened his eyes to the madness when he was eight years old, and that person happened to be a Snow: Evie.

Although Evie might have literally been the girl next door, she was far from that stereotype. When she was younger, she was round and gawky. She never wore glasses or braces, and she always had quite a pretty face, but she couldn’t hold herself properly. She looked uncomfortable in everything she wore and out of place in every setting, and when she ran, which she did often, she looked like a newborn giraffe trying to find its feet. Her mother tried to encourage her to be ladylike, but Evie resented the idea that to be considered a lady you couldn’t behave the same way as all the young boys were encouraged to do. Her brother Eddie and Jim were almost forced to play and be boisterous, while Evie had to sit still and be boring and pretend she was elegant when clearly she was itching to gallop as fast as possible through as many muddy puddles she could find. She saw nothing wrong in being elegant if that was what you wanted, but it wasn’t what she wanted.

As she got older, she lost most of the gawk but kept most of the round, and even though she grew into an odd but beautiful young woman, to her family she was the ugly duckling. However, unlike most women who were partial to cake and cups of tea with three sugars, she embraced her extra weight. Partly because she knew those few extra pounds annoyed her mother, but mainly because she was healthy as she was and couldn’t stand the thought of exercising any more than walking up the seven flights of stairs to her flat on the occasions when the lift broke down – though luckily this very rarely happened as Lieffe kept the building in such good order.

As children, Jim and Evie were pushed together, their families set on them getting married when they were older, but then as they did get older, their friendship suddenly became ‘inappropriate’.

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