Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville

Author:Kate Grenville
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2011-08-28T22:00:00+00:00

It was a sad house with Jack gone, the silence solid as darkness. The grief sucked everything away, every feeling except itself. Even the sun was dull.

I didn’t cry again. I was cold as a stone inside, like someone with a leg chopped off. Waited for the days to pass, me and my body cut off from each other, no way to knit them up again.

All sights, every sound, led to the same place. When the wind blew and the rain fell I thought of the night Jack brought the girl, how the wet made his hair gleam. When the river sparkled it was mockery. When a bird flicked on a twig and cocked its head sideways at me all I could think was how lucky it was to be a bird.

In the mornings I got up and put clothes on, at night I took them off and lay down. Sat at the table and put pieces of food in my mouth and chewed and swallowed. Could hear Ma and Pa talking, but a long way off. Heard them calling. Dolly! Dolly! Their voices like a fly against the window.

I’d thought Pa loved me in his own way. But he’d let Ma do the dirty work for him. When push came to shove, he wouldn’t stand up to her. Didn’t say, Dolly’s my daughter, I’ll see her happy. Didn’t go to Jack and say, Pride be damned, Jack lad.

I went over those few hours where everything had warped out of shape. No matter how many times I did, it wasn’t quite right. Not stand in her way didn’t fit alongside Never want to see your face again. The thing felt like a trick.

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