All That I Am by Anna Funder

Author:Anna Funder [Funder, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I sat in the kitchen of the flat in Bloomsbury, barely breathing. A fly was making its way around the rim of a teacup, throwing a surreal, leggy shadow into the bowl. I was delicately focusing the camera lens to try to catch it before the shutter noise sent it off. The fly raised its two back legs and rubbed them together, in some kind of dyslexic glee. Hans was at the library.

A ringing broke the air. The fly vanished.

Our phone number was Holborn 7230, but we weren’t in the book so you had to be told. I picked up the receiver to nothing but dial tone. Then I realised it was the intercom for the front door that had been installed to call the caretaker down for parcels, or people who’d forgotten their keys.

‘Hello?’

‘It’s me,’ she said.

‘I’ll try this buzzer.’ Hans and I had our own keys, so I hadn’t used the system before. I started to fiddle with the switches.

‘Can’t you just come down?’

Dora was standing on the doorstep between a briefcase I recognised as Hans’s and a heavy typewriter case. She was wearing trousers and a grey rollneck and what looked like a man’s jacket, though it might have just been too big. It was raining.

‘I need my own space,’ she said. ‘Can I stay here?’ Her eyes were red and puffy.

‘You need to ask?’ I hugged her.

Dora hadn’t been sleeping. That first night she took Veronal and slept till morning. At breakfast she came into the kitchen in Toller’s burgundy pyjamas and poured herself a coffee. She ripped open another sachet of the drug and emptied the powder in, flicking it with her index finger to get it all out. ‘I’ll be caught up by this evening,’ she said, and went back to bed. She knew intricately about dosages–too many grains at once and the sleep would be permanent, so she’d do it in two stages.

In the evening she woke up fresh-faced and sparkling, and left us for a meeting of the International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom. Hans and I went to see the new picture King Kong; we watched the monster climb to the top of the building and bellow at the world.

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