The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn

Author:Kirsty Gunn [Kirsty Gunn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571282357
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

Callum never said out loud to anyone – not to his mother when she called, or to Margaret when she met him at the door, when he arrived and she told him about his father – that he suspected where his father had been trying to get to that day.

Though he had already thought it – He’ll have gone to the secret place. There was too much going on, in those first few moments of him getting back to the House to even remember that that’s what he’d thought. There was his arrival in the cold, after the long day’s driving, the dogs barking in their enclosure, Margaret there, and Iain – and then his heart had dropped to the pit of his belly when he heard Helen had had a child, did he know?

No, he didn’t know.

But everything seemed to be coming together then. Though in a way he couldn’t figure. Still, everything.

Helen.

The Little Hut.

His father.

And he himself, his father’s son, being back here again after all this time away.

All of it was coming together and making him feel sick, something lurched within him – for he could understand, though he didn’t know why, it made perfect sense to him, that his father would be taking Helen’s child with him, up there, to that place. Even though there’s no reason at all he can think of why his father would do such a thing, steal a baby away, put her in such danger, head off with her that way into the hills … Still, his taking her could make sense to Callum even so. So from the minute Margaret told him … That she was there in the House, Helen … That there was a baby …

Did he know?

No, he didn’t know.

All the parts were coming together, in a pattern, nevertheless.

So that, for a second, Callum thought he was going to fall to the floor.

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