The Long Journey Home by Cecily Blench

Author:Cecily Blench
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction

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Worcestershire, August 1935

‘Why don’t you go to the pictures?’ asked her father, watching her folding clothes. ‘Go with Mabel or someone, why don’t you?’

‘I’m quite happy here,’ said Kate. She opened the sock drawer and flung a few strays in.

‘It’s not healthy for you, Kate,’ he said. ‘You’re a good girl but you ought to go out sometimes. I hate to think of you locked in here with me – just because I’m stuck at home doesn’t mean you have to be.’

‘I’m fine, Dad,’ she said, shaking her head. ‘I know I can go out if I want to.’

‘Such a waste,’ he said, lying back heavily.

‘What is?’

‘All of this. You. Me. Your mother.’

Kate went and sat on the foot of the bed. ‘Don’t say that. It’s hard, but it’s not a waste. We’re all right, aren’t we?’

‘It’s getting worse,’ said her father quietly. ‘But it won’t go on forever. You’ll have your freedom one day.’

‘Don’t!’ said Kate, standing up. She felt suddenly angry and it was all that she could do not to shake her father. ‘I won’t have you saying things like that! It’s not fair!’

He closed his eyes. She saw a tear trickle down his cheek and felt a rush of love and despair and fury at the unjustness of it all. His skin was mottled, his hair nearly white, his arms lying thin across the bedclothes. She would not let him go, not yet.

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