The Night Visitors by Jenn Ashworth

Author:Jenn Ashworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911585404
Publisher: Dead Ink

Date: 9 October 2016 15.27

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Subject: Are you all right?

Alice,

I have not heard from you for over a week now. I am aware that we have arrived at a stage where we are on poor terms, but I should be grateful if you could acknowledge receipt of my last message.

Orla

Date: 12 October 2016 23.44

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Subject: ????!!!

Alice,

If you could be good enough to reply to these emails I should be grateful.

Is anything perhaps the matter with Sam and that is what is preventing you from responding?

I am aware I’m not the easiest correspondent to interact with, so perhaps it is incumbent on me to extend something of an olive branch, a gesture I’d be content to oblige you with should there be any additional assistance you require.

Remember how I told you that I was working on a book, my follow up to In the Lost Province. I should let two things be known. First, it is not a novel. It is an autobiography, the story of my life from my earliest memories – from before those memories, from Hattie, her career, the Gosforth Massacre – through to my breakaway to university, to Oxford, then to publication, to instant literary superstardom, wealth and prestige, followed by a slow, decades-long drift into a strange hermit-like existence. In a sense I suppose you’re my competitor, Alice. It is a book based around such snapshots I mentioned – images gleaned and held onto from my life, the questions they present and the possible answers. Secondly, although I have copious notes, I have yet to embark on truly committing any of it to paper. I have spent the past fifty years preparing my material, organising my thoughts, shuffling my snapshots, reordering them, finding a new, unique meaning with each permutation, a new profundity, a new set of possible answers. Madness, I know.

A mad old woman, sick and blind. I doubt, in my darker moments, that I’ll ever complete this book of mine. Perhaps instead of remaining competitors, we could work together. I could avail you of my notes and somehow we could create something we would both view as a source of pride.

Please respond at your nearest convenience,

Orla

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