The Little Jane Silver 2-Book Bundle by Adira Rotstein

Author:Adira Rotstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2014-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Early the next morning Little Jane had a startlingly vivid dream that her parents hadn’t really been captured and it was all just a complicated birthday surprise gone awry. They were hiding with Jonesy behind the bar all along, like they did when she turned eight, ready to spring out with rum cakes and sugar cane drinks, shouting “surprise” when she appeared. Only she hadn’t come and they’d been forced to eat the cakes themselves. She heard them talking about it from behind the screen that divided their side of the room from hers, expressing their disappointment.

She woke with a start and pushed the screen back, ready to explain to them what had happened. By the half-light of dawn, she blinked at their unslept-in sheets and remembered. She pulled her blanket tight around her shoulders and sat down in her mother’s creaky rocking chair. A yellow square of early morning light moved gradually over their empty bedspread. Dust specks drifted in the stream of light, illuminating three abandoned shoes, still waiting patiently on the mat by the door.

“What would you have me do?” Little Jane implored them, but the shoes did not reply.

She sat and stared for a long time, thinking furiously, unable to come up with a single solution. Finally, the sound of Villienne’s voice greeting Jonesy downstairs disrupted her reverie. She quickly got dressed and ran down to join them.

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