The Quigleys by Simon Mason

Author:Simon Mason [Mason, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54359-2
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2002-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

But she said it so quietly, Will had to shout, ‘What?'

She repeated it. ‘It isn't going to be an awful day,' she said in the same calm, quiet voice, ‘because we're all going to be calm and sweet and good-natured.'

‘Calm?' Will said in disgust.

‘Yes, calm.'

She came into the room with that calm smile. ‘So take your football boots off, Will,' she said pleasantly. ‘The Anglo-Saxons didn't wear them.'

She brushed Lucy's hair and Lucy yelled, and Mum said, very calmly, ‘The thing is, Lucy, you really shouldn't chew your hair.' ‘It's nothing to do with chewing!' Lucy yelled. ‘It's to do with pain!'

And Mum said calmly, but with feeling, ‘I do hope we're all going to be calm and sweet and good-natured.'

Eventually they went down for breakfast. There was no Red Berry Special K, and Mum had to explain four times that they couldn't have chocolate spread on their toast because it wasn't the weekend, which was one of the stupider family rules, and in the end they all ate cornflakes in silence.

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