Room 46 & Short Story Collection by Helen McKenna

Author:Helen McKenna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: australian fiction, womens contemporary, womens ficition
Publisher: Helen McKenna

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The staff at the hospital had been surprised at how adamant Grace was about not contacting her family. They had wheedled and cajoled to the best of their abilities but none of them – the nurses, the social worker or even the head psychiatrist – could convince her to reveal her next of kin. Being over eighteen by the time she was admitted and therefore legally an adult, they had to accept her decision.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to see them, to feel the warmth of their loving embrace and to pour out her woes like she once would have. The problem was she simply didn’t deserve to. They had given up so much to support her dream and she had thrown in back in their faces.

Grace tried not to dwell too much on how the whole incident would have impacted on them. Small towns could be amazingly supportive but also heartbreakingly cruel when one of their own betrayed them so spectacularly. She could only hope the scar would heal with time and their lives could go on as they always had.

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