The Golden Age by Joan London

Author:Joan London
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Europa
Published: 2016-07-08T04:00:00+00:00

Only little Albert Sutton cried because he didn’t want to come back. He was seven years old, the youngest of six children, immigrants from England, the one born in Australia. He cried for his parents and his four brothers and one sister, all of whom accompanied him back to the Golden Age. They stood around his bed, a great crowd, all strong, white-skinned, black-haired.

‘Now then, our Albert, tears won’t make you better,’ said his father.

‘You’ll be home in no time, love,’ his mother said.

But his big sister, Lizzie, in an exact, dramatic movement, swooped on her tiny brother, picked him up and danced him cheek to cheek around the room, humming, serious, as if he were her man. She closed her eyes in a dream, flushed rosy, her long dark hair falling down her back. The watching boys in their beds held their breath. Frank could almost feel her warm cheek on his. A shiver ran through him. It was the same feeling he used to have when he saw his mother’s friend, Audrey Singerman. Even when he was quite old, Audrey would sit him on her lap, so close to her that he could feel her breasts and the throb in the soft depth of her body.

‘Lizzie’s little man,’ Frank heard Albert’s father say as the brother and sister swirled around the dormitory. ‘From the day he were born . . . ’

Lizzie laid Albert down on his bed and whispered in his ear. He didn’t move. Then, like a flock of birds, the Sutton family rose all together and in a clatter of shoes disappeared out the door. Albert put his pillow over his face to pretend he wasn’t there.

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