The Broken Mirror by Jonathan Coe

Author:Jonathan Coe [Coe, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783524181
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

And so now, frantically, she rummaged through the junk that had accumulated in her bedside drawer in search of the old broken mirror, and eventually she found it, her fingers closing on the scrap of green velvet cloth in which she had last wrapped it all that time ago. Sitting down on her bed, she unfolded the velvet and took out the jagged, star-shaped object. It was pretty dusty. She wiped it with her sleeve. Then she drew a deep, nervous breath, and looked into the mirror.

At first she did not look into it directly. She turned it at different angles and looked at various reflections of her bedroom. When she saw that these reflections were basically no different from what she could see every day, with her own eyes, she felt a tremor of disappointment, but also – in a strange way – a certain relief. So it had been nothing but her imagination, after all. It was just an ordinary mirror – and a very dirty and misshapen one, at that. How could she ever have believed otherwise? There was no such thing as magic. Everybody knew that!

Finally she turned the mirror so that it was pointing directly at her own face.

And this time it was different. The same grey-blue eyes stared back at her, but her face was not the same. There were no spots, none at all. Her skin was pale and creamy and quite unblemished. This was her own face, yes, but at the same time one that she hardly recognised. This face was beautiful.

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