Missing Christopher by Jayne Newling

Author:Jayne Newling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO026000, book
ISBN: 9781743437674
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

My friend Deby, whose son Laurie was born on the same day and at the same hospital as Christopher, told me about her experience.

Our sons had grown up together until Deby moved to Queensland after the death to cancer of her husband Steve and when the boys were in their early teens. She said that a week before Christopher died, she had bought me a card but hadn’t got around to sending it. On the day he died she picked it up to post it and found a dead cricket near the stamp. She flicked it off and it fell behind her chest of drawers.

Deby later told me: ‘On the night it happened, Yaina [Deby’s daughter] and I were at a friend’s house. At 11:15 a strange feeling came over me. I was very unsettled and Yaina could see how agitated I was. I pretended I wasn’t feeling well and we went home. I couldn’t sleep all night.’

A few days after the funeral, Deby bought me a sundial for Christopher’s garden because ‘time is important’.

After she got home she found the dead cricket and buried it under a birdbath I had given her years before.

The sundial is now in my Blue Mountains garden, next to the Chinese elm.

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