The Call of the High Country by Tony Parsons

Author:Tony Parsons [Parsons, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781459621329
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

made a meal of cold meat and salad and boiled the

jug for tea. Just after two o’clock, exactly as expected,

the phone shrilled beside him.

‘Is everything all right?’ he asked straightaway.

‘Not exactly. I’m sorry to say that your father has

had a stroke, a severe stroke.’

David’s heart stopped. How could this be? Sickness

was something that happened to other people,

he thought. He had hardly had a sick day in his life,

and neither had his father. He just could not envisage

Andy laid low. There was nothing he hated so much

as visiting people in hospital, and to know that his

father was lying there now was shattering.

David didn’t know how to reply, but finally

managed to utter the words, ‘Oh no. Should I ring

anyone and let them know?’

‘No, dear. We’ll wait a day or two before we do

that. Kate is coming back to get you and bring you

to the hospital. She’ll probably stay with you tonight

as I won’t be coming home.’

‘Righto, Mum.’

David didn’t like the sound of things at all. His

mother wouldn’t call him to the hospital unless his

father was real crook. Maybe he was going to die and

had asked to see him one last time. What a thing to

happen. His father had always seemed indestructible,

yet there was no doubt he had looked a lot older and

wearier since he’d arrived back this time. Andy had

worked like hell to stay the top shearer, but look what

it had cost him.

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