Mr Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers

Author:Salley Vickers [Salley Vickers]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780007379651
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

At Nicky Pope’s, as with almost all the households of Great Calne, the vicar’s sexual leanings were being thoroughly analysed, with Nicky giving it as her opinion to Cherie Wolford that the whole thing was ‘disgusting!’ The conversation was conducted in lowered tones and out of Tessa’s hearing. The poor child had had that nasty experience while helping out at the tearooms. But the sound of a lowered voice, especially a parental one, is a sure way of attracting attention. The vision of the Virgin having faded with repetition, Tessa Pope’s imagination was in need of refurbishment. It wasn’t long before she was in the lounge on her knees and crying, while her mother tactfully extracted the story of how the lady vicar had touched her ‘round the bra area’ when she was helping her with the flowers up at the church.

Tessa Pope’s revelation was a piece of luck for Barty Clarke, whose phone hadn’t stopped ringing since the latest edition of the Backbiter had appeared. Although he was practised at sailing near the wind, even Barty was alarmed by the boldness of the piece when he saw it in print and was planning to consult his solicitor the following day when the Tessa Pope story broke. It reached him via Nadia Fawns, who had run low on tonic and had dropped by the Stannary Arms to buy a couple of bottles for an impending visit by Sam.

Barty, greatly relieved to hear how his insinuations had been rewarded by fate with this surprise witness, offered to buy Nadia a drink. Nadia accepted a Campari and soda and described, in some detail, the Arthurian novel which Barty had already heard about from Sam in the very same pub. But this Barty kept to himself. There was another edition of the Backbiter due out in a couple of months and he had a reputation to live up to now.

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