Over the Moon by Jean Ure

Author:Jean Ure [Ure,Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007402540
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2006-09-11T12:00:00+00:00

Mum clicked her tongue, impatiently. She said, “I’m fighting a losing battle, aren’t I?” And she swept out of the room, leaving me and Dad to exchange rueful glances.

“She’s doing it again,” I said.

“I know, I know.” Dad waved a hand, as if to say, tell me about it. “Women get to a certain age— ”

“She’s not that old!” I said.

She was only forty-two: not exactly ancient. “If she’d had me when you were first married,” I said, “she’d only be thirty-two. Why did you wait so long?”

“Ah. Well.” A slightly shifty look came over Dad’s face. “That was, like – I guess – my fault. In a way.” He gave me this guilty grin. “I didn’t want her to lose her figure!”

I said, “Dad.”

“Well, and also I wanted to keep her all to myself … just at the beginning, you know?”

“Is that the reason you never had any more?” I said.

“Why? Would you have liked us to have more?”

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