The Murmurs by Michael J. Malone

Author:Michael J. Malone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orenda Books
Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

It was signed, simply, Eleanor.

Annie felt a trail of moistness running down her cheek, and wiped it away with a thumb. She hadn’t realised she’d been crying. The cold approach of her grandmother explained a lot about her own mother. And for Bridget to have received such communication from her sister as well as from her mother, she must have truly felt abandoned.

And what on earth might the accusations have been against Pastor Mosely? That certainly seemed to have set the sisters at odds. There was no point in speculating though; in Annie’s experience the truth was always stranger than any fiction she might come up with.

She went back to the letter, and a word her mother used snagged in her mind.

‘Child’.

She’d written about her pregnancy in the singular. Hadn’t she known she was going to have twins? Perhaps she hadn’t wanted to pay much attention to any prenatal scans, delaying finding out the sex of the baby until the last moment?

As she tidied the pile in preparation for retying them with the silk ribbon she noticed a hard edge among the envelopes. She teased them apart to find a postcard in among them. Where had this come from? Had it been tucked inside one of the letters?

On the front was a standard image of a stretch of golden sand and the sea. It could have been anywhere. On the back, on the right, was Bridget’s name and the address of Oswald House. On the left a simple hand-written message. Sorry you’re there, not here. Under that was a single initial. B.

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