The Glass Tower: A mystery and suspense thriller with a gripping twist by Gregg Dunnett

Author:Gregg Dunnett [Dunnett, Gregg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912835119
Publisher: Old Map Books
Published: 2019-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Eight

The next day, at nine o'clock sharp, Julia sat in her new office and began typing her own new novel into her new laptop computer. It didn't go as badly as it had down in Dorset – there was no paper to screw up this time – and though by midday she still hadn't written a word of the actual book, she had begun to connect ideas together. There were notes, whole sentences in some cases, that suggested directions she could take. At one o’clock she stopped, and went out for lunch. After, she walked the streets, absorbing the energy and the creativity of the city. She walked until she was quite lost, and then followed the maps app on her phone to get home. By then she was tired, so she got a take-away, washed it down with four more Dramadol and a bottle of wine, and then climbed into her freestanding bath.

The next day she did the same.

And the day after that. And for all of the next ten days. Slowly, a plan began to emerge from the mists of her mind. She had her sense of place for her story – her imaginary forest – and this had developed nicely. Now she sensed how the wind rustled the leaves of the trees. How the light filtered down through the random, ever-changing patterns of the canopy. She could even hear, when she closed her eyes, how the twigs below her feet would snap as she moved around. But more importantly she was also finding the shape of the story. It was complex – like a tetrahedron (although, she realised once she decided this, that she would need to check what actual shape a tetrahedron was). The point was, everything that had come together when she finally began to make significant progress on The Glass Tower was happening again. And it was tremendously exciting.

It was so exciting she forgot all about Marion Brown, and her stupid kids and stupid pilot husband, and all the hopes she had harboured about the two of them browsing second-hand book shops together, or drinking coffee with the hipsters and gossiping about the publishing world. She didn't want that – she never had. What Julia wanted, what was truly exciting, was the feeling of having a live project.

So now, Julia positively bounded out of bed every day – as much as her back would allow. She'd breakfast on coffee and Dramadol, and arrive at her computer fresh and excited.

Then, just as she was really building momentum in her new project, she received an email that she’d never expected.

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