The Friends of Harry Perkins by Chris Mullin

Author:Chris Mullin [Mullin, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471182495
Google: 04VzDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07J5S6HH5
Goodreads: 43015648
Publisher: Scribner UK
Published: 2019-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

‘I’ll lend you for a little time a child of mine,’ He said,

‘For you to love the while she lives and mourn for when she’s dead.

It may be six or seven years, or twenty-two or three,

But will you, till I call her back, take care of her for Me?

She’ll bring her charm to gladden you and, should her stay be brief,

You’ll have her lovely memories as solace for your grief.’

Thompson, in a trembling voice, gave a brief account of that golden little life, speculating on what might have been, and concluding, ‘If I live to be a hundred there will not be a day,’ a pause to regain composure, ‘perhaps not a single hour in a single day . . .’ another pause, ‘when I do not see that shiny face smiling up at me.’ Then, head down, he returned to his seat, the silence broken only by the sound of sobbing.

Later, at the crematorium, the little coffin disappeared to the sound of Westlife singing ‘Queen of My Heart’, a song that, in happier times, they used to sing together as they drove up the motorway to Sheffield.

* * *

Come Whitsun they returned to ‘their’ island and scattered the little person’s ashes on a grassy hill overlooking the beach on which she had once played. ‘Daddy,’ asked Lucy, as they walked back to the cottage, ‘will we ever be happy again?’

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