So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor

Author:Jon McGregor
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

32 University prospectuses; 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974

Someone came to the door this afternoon but I don't know who it was, Eleanor said. They rang and rang and I didn't want to answer it. I didn't know who it might have been or why they wouldn't go away.

Her eyes faint and distant, refusing to meet his.

I meant to go to the shops, she said; there's some things we need; I'm sorry but I couldn't face going outside just now.

Her once-clear voice cracked and whispering.

I don't feel too good, that's the thing, she said. I don't feel too good at all.

It wasn't what they'd imagined, this life. It wasn't what they'd planned. She'd been going to study geology, get her degree, get a job, maybe go back to Aberdeen and show them all what she'd achieved, show them why she'd come away and hear them say, well, it was worth it after all. The stalled applications, the funding problems, the withdrawing of the course - these weren't part of the plan. The unhappy and unfulfilling jobs which she couldn't stick at weren't part of the plan. Her increasing reluctance to leave the house unless she was with David wasn't part of the plan. She was going to get her degree, the money from his job would help her through university, she could get any job she wanted when she left, they could go anywhere, she could do anything. Sleepless nights and uneaten dinners weren't part of the plan.

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