The Secret Fate of Mary Watson by Judy Johnson

Author:Judy Johnson [Johnson, Judy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2010-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

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Why would a woman need a husband

when she has a rifle?

From the secret diary of Mary Watson

10TH JUNE 1880

A sharp in-breath as I wake, bile on my tongue. It’s the same dream I’ve had every night since we arrived.

Somehow, I’m in Bob’s head as he lands Isabella on the sandy tongue of the Lizard. It’s been a long time since he’s lived here. Under a full moon with its cataract of cloud, his boots chew dark gravel to the house. There’s that island noise he finds so reassuring: the corkscrew screek of pandanus leaves opening the ocean’s bottle of wine.

The heavy door to the house breathes open and he slumps with relief, seeing how a fire has been lit and is making those satisfying cleaver-meets-marrowbone cracks. Nothing wrong. Nothing wrong … except his pipe has been moved from where it usually sits on the mantel. Dark streaks of blood stain the wall, and a woman (is it me?) and her child look up from the light, their skulls aglow …

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