Felaheen by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Author:Jon Courtenay Grimwood [Grimwood, Jon Courtenay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780575083684
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Limited
Published: 2008-09-10T23:00:00+00:00

Juggling a fat cowpat of harissa in her hands, Isabeau tried to stop it from dripping oil onto her jeans.

Chef Edvard preferred dry mix that needed added oil but none Isabeau and Raf had seen in Marché

Central looked good enough, so she'd bought freshly made paste.

That was a difference between them, Raf decided. If the old Madagascan had sent him to buy dried harissa, then that's what Raf would have bought. The best he could find from the range available.

However, he was there to buy lamb. And talk to Isabeau.

Raf sighed.

"What?" Isabeau asked.

"Chef Edvard's worried about you . . ." He shrugged. "Everyone's worried. So if you need to take time off, maybe go back to Tarbarka?" Raf named a town on the northern coast. The only town in Ifriqiya where descendents of French colonists still outnumbered residents of Arab and Berber stock.

"That's why we were sent out together? So you can suggest I go home to my grandmother?"

"In a way."

"Yeah," said Isabeau, "I can see everyone liking that. Solves the problem doesn't it? Isabeau's gone off the rails so let's send her somewhere else . . ." Isabeau's voice was loud enough to make a man standing by the shellfish stall stop shovelling cracked ice onto a marble tray and watch them instead, iron trowel poised in his hand.

"I don't think chef meant it like that," Raf said.

"Really?" said Isabeau. "How did he mean it?"

"He's trying to help."

"No one can help," Isabeau said fiercely. "What's happened has happened. Pascal is dead.

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