The Grass Widow by Vanessa Edwards

Author:Vanessa Edwards [Edwards, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Matador
Published: 2023-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

I SAW YOU WITH YOUR LOVER IN THE GARDEN. I HAVE PHOTOS.

She sat down on Amanda’s office chair and read the message again. Not that it took more than a split second. She took a photo and put the paper back in the drawer, then reluctantly started a less efficient clean than usual.

Someone other than her — and Amanda and the mystery lover — clearly knew that Amanda was having an affair. But how? And who? Leonie wasn’t familiar with the garden at Whiteacre; she’d always been too conscious of the need to impress with her cleaning to take time out to explore it with the risk of being discovered doing so. Now she put her duster down, went into Hugh’s office and looked out of the window. She’d had a quick peek from here on her first clean but hadn’t really taken in the detail when there was so much more to be clocked, and since then she’d only seen the garden from the lower floors. She hadn’t realised how extensive it was, surveyed from what seemed a great height. It was also well screened on either side with trees and tall shrubs, and she doubted that the immediate neighbours would have much of a view, if any.

The garden seemed to go on for ever — the terrace, the big lawn, a broad stretch of mixed flowers — was that what they called a herbaceous border? — a smaller lawn beyond with a summerhouse, rose beds to the right, an arch of something — ivy maybe? — and a tiny patch of green like a doll’s house lawn. Beyond, there were what looked like fruit trees, garden sheds and what might be compost heaps, all set behind a hedge which she thought would screen the more workaday rear of the garden from the terrace, lawns and beds nearer the house, but which from her current vantage point was just a darker line across the green.

Leonie’s musings were interrupted by her phone signalling an incoming email. She glanced at it and sat down hard again, this time on Hugh’s chair. It was from Cathy.

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