Wild Grapes by Elizabeth Aston

Author:Elizabeth Aston [Aston, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belsyre Books
Published: 2018-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

“Have you got any brothers?” Sybil asked.

“No,” said Gina, fuming as she tried to push one aluminium curved piece into another. “Why?”

“Because I was thinking how much this reminds me of building electric train layouts. My son had a lot of track and not much patience.”

“Hell,” said Gina, as the pieces finally slid together, leaving her with an inside piece about eight inches shorter than it should be.

“There’s the doorbell,” said Sybil. “It’ll be the people for Kingfisher Cottage. I’ll just give them the key and show them where things are, and then I’ll be back.”

“Fine,” said Gina, not looking up from her next pair of curved bits.

She’d got the hang of it, finally, and the pieces slotted together on the ground in an approximation of a circle.

Strange, thought Gina, as she moved slowly round on her hands and knees to adjust the joins. Three weeks ago, if I’d looked ahead to now, I’d have thought I might just be in Oxford. More likely, I would be in New York. I could never have imagined that I would be in a cottage garden in Heartsbane, staying with a pornographic novelist, putting up a swimming pool. It just goes to show, she told herself, that you can’t even begin to think about what twists and turns your life might take.

Gina came back to the matter in hand, and looked at the instructions again. Support the metal wall once erected with stout wooden pegs. Stout wooden pegs indeed! Where were these people living? Where could you get pegs like that these days? It didn’t look as though they were important, you took them away as soon as the wall was up and the liner filled with water. It wasn’t as though there was any danger of wind, either. The only wind they’d had for days was this tiny, fretful breeze which hardly stirred the leaves.

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