Displaced by Barbara Nadel

Author:Barbara Nadel [Barbara Nadel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780749022471
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

There was nothing to see.

‘The alcove was here,’ Beltz said.

Lee looked at Irving, who was beyond white, almost green.

‘I think we should go upstairs again,’ he said as he took one of Irving’s arms. ‘It’s cold.’

‘Cold as death.’

If you looked closely, there was an outline of what could have once been a wall. The only feature that marked that alcove out from others in the cellar was that there was a ledge on the inside, about two feet from the ground. At a pinch, a small person could have been able to sit down, which was probably why this space had been chosen. Lee recalled a story he’d once been told as a child about a nun who had been walled up for supposedly having fallen in love with a priest. His father had said, ‘Bloody Catholics! What do you expect?’ and then gone back to his copy of The Sun.

Then there was the story of Anne Frank. It had been the one book from his youth that had really affected him. Lee had always wanted to go and see the secret annexe in Amsterdam and be where Anne had once lived. But maybe after this experience, he didn’t. Then he felt a pressure on the arm that was not holding up Irving.

Mumtaz.

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