Cornish Clouds and Silver Lining Skies: Your no. 1 sunny, feel-good read for the summer by Ali McNamara

Author:Ali McNamara [McNamara, Ali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2022-08-17T18:30:00+00:00

We leave Tregarlan none the wiser after having a cup of coffee with Fisher at his apartment. None of us can think of a reason why Lucinda would lie about the readings – unless it was just to cover up a blunder someone had made.

But for anyone who knew anything about reading weather equipment, to make a mistake of that magnitude would be pretty hard to do. We had predicted calm dry weather because that’s what our equipment had told us. The Wave Watch had taken very similar readings, and yet according to Lucinda, and a couple of local fishermen who Fisher had checked with, the Wave Watch’s forecast had been spot on that night – stormy weather, with strong winds and high waves. So to keep safe, the fishermen hadn’t taken their boats out that night, and had stayed home instead.

‘It just doesn’t make sense,’ I say as Jamie and I pull up in our usual parking spot by the harbour so we can pop into town and get some shopping. ‘We both registered the same readings. Why would the Wave Watch say it’s going to be stormy if they thought it wasn’t?’

Jamie shrugs. ‘I have absolutely no idea. But what is interesting is however they went about it, they actually got the forecast right, didn’t they? It was stormy that night, so whoever made that judgement call probably saved a few people from going through what I did.’

‘Yeah, I know it worked out for the best, but I still want to know how and why that happened. And also why Lucinda was so defensive about it?’

‘Maybe she just didn’t want to admit they got it wrong.’

‘But that’s the thing – they didn’t get it wrong, did they? However they went about it, their actual forecast was right. It was ours that was wrong.’ I hated saying it, but it was true – somehow, we’d messed up.

Jamie grins as we climb out of the Jeep. ‘I think that’s what you’re more concerned about – the fact you were wrong. I’m guessing it doesn’t happen to you very often, does it?’

‘I don’t know what you mean,’ I say as casually as I can. I knew exactly what he was suggesting, but I wasn’t going to admit it.

‘I mean, you don’t like the fact that you got the forecast wrong and the Wave Watch got it right.’

‘Technically, it was you who got it wrong,’ I tell him as we begin to walk together along the harbour front. ‘You were the one who said the weather was going to be calm that night.’

Jamie shakes his head. ‘Ah, I see where this is going … you can’t blame your equipment – which we’ve discovered in a roundabout way isn’t actually faulty – so you’re blaming me instead. You checked those readings, Sky, you know what they said. I didn’t get anything wrong, did I? Admit it, go on; you know you can if you try.’

‘Perhaps when you typed your readings on to your

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