Elegy for April by Benjamin Black

Author:Benjamin Black
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery And Suspense Fiction, Mystery & Detective - General, Psychological fiction, Pathologists, Mystery & Detective, Mystery, Fiction - Mystery, Detective, General, Psychological, Irish Novel And Short Story, Suspense, Historical, Mystery fiction, Fiction, Dublin (Ireland), Mystery & Detective - Historical
ISBN: 9780805090918
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2010-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

She switched on the bedside lamp and laid her head back on the damp, hot pillow and squeezed her eyes shut. She did not want to be awake, but there would be no sleep now for a long time. Sighing, she got up and put on her silk dressing gown— peignoir was what it was properly called, she liked the word. It had belonged to the woman who for the first nineteen years of her life she had thought was her mother.

She went out to the kitchen. Night smells, she had often noticed, were different from day ones, were mustier, fainter, more insidious. She drew open the lapels of her silk gown and put her face into the hollow there and sniffed. Yes, her smell too was different, a babyish, secret staleness.

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