A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon
Author:Joanna Cannon [Cannon, Joanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2022-02-08T17:00:00+00:00
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I decided not to mention the police visits to Terry.
I could tell the police had started to rattle him, even if he tried his best to hide it. Anyway, I didnât see the point. They were only casual, after all, so there wasnât any need to bother him. Plus, Terry always gets this look on his face whenever I talk about the police. He rolls his eyes and makes a pfffttth noise like whales do when they come up for air, and I wasnât in the mood for his eye-rolling and his whale-blowing noises, and so I kept quiet. I couldnât have said for certain, but Iâm sure the police knocked on every door in the street before they got to ours. It wasnât as though theyâd singled us out.
The next morning, Terry was up with the lark, off on a fishing trip like every Saturday morning. Each weekend, he went fishing with his work friends, although who those friends were, I couldnât tell you, because he never brought them home. âTheyâd only mess up your kitchen, Linda,â he always said. âMake a nuisance of themselves and get marks all over your clean surfaces.â
Iâve never known anyone so enthusiastic about fish. Tearing round the house getting ready, whistling to himself, and there was no point attempting to have any kind of conversation with him because he was too busy living in a world of his own. I wouldnât have minded, but that loose carpet was getting looser by the minute and all the glass in the front door might go through if that crack wasnât fixed. Had I let those policemen come in, and one of them had tripped, we might even have litigation on our hands. You see the adverts all the time on the telly, because Mother writes the numbers down in case she ever goes head first on a wet floor.
I set to as soon as he was through the back door. Terry thought housework was a piece of cake, but thatâs because he never did any. For a start, he made more mess than he thought he did â he never rinsed out the sink properly when heâd had a shave, footprints all over the kitchen floor, and I was forever hoovering bits of him up. Hair, muck, grease. You could follow a trail of him around the house like breadcrumbs in a childrenâs story. Heaven forbid if he decided to have a bath, because it always took me a good hour afterwards to get everything back to the way it should be. I always tried to put him off. âHave a shower,â Iâd say. âItâs much quicker.â He never took a blind bit of notice. Although he had recently begun to make more of an effort, in all fairness. Heâd started going for a shower as soon as he got in. Even put his own clothes in the washing machine. It was like most things in life â it probably just takes a bit of time for people to come around to your way of thinking.
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