![]() ![]() “And, Queenie, something for you.” Sister Catherine crossed the room, holding out an envelope. The loud woman called Finty opened a letter informing her that if she scratched off the foil window, she would discover that she’d won an exciting prize. The blind lady, Barbara, received a note from her neighbor-Sister Catherine read it out-spring is coming, it said. I don’t know her name.) There is a big man they call the Pearly King, and he had another parcel though I have been here a week and I haven’t yet seen him open one. There was a card for the new young woman. Sister Catherine passed several brown envelopes, forwarded, to a Scotsman known as Mr. Sister Catherine strode in with the morning delivery. I can imagine all sorts of things, Harold, if I put my mind to it. I hear the patients cough, and it is only the wind in my garden by the sea. But I close my eyes and I pretend that the heat of the radiator is the sun on my hands and the smell of lunch is salt in the air. ![]() The colors, the smells, the way a day passes. By the time she’d got sorted, pens and a glass of water and so on, he was dozing again. One lone seagull balanced in the sky.Ī patient nodded, and Sister Lucy fetched paper. Outside, the winter evergreens flapped and shivered. ![]() Sister Lucy, who is the youngest nun volunteering in the hospice, asked if anyone would like to help with her new jigsaw. We were in the dayroom for morning activities. ![]() EXCERPT: Your letter arrived this morning. ![]()
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Back in the early ’90s, when my obsessions with both American Music Club and Suede were at their peak, the news of a collaboration between Mark Eitzel and Bernard Butler would’ve had me jizzing myself into a state of such advanced desiccation that they’d have had to put me on a drip for at least a week. ![]() ![]() As they struggle to coexist, theirs becomes a love story that transcends language and time. With only each other for company, they must rely on one another to fight the dangers of the wild and prepare for the winter months. No matter what she tries, getting her point across to this primitive but beautiful man is a constant-and often hilarious-struggle. ![]() ![]() She's not at all interested in Ehd's primitive advances, and she just can't seem to get him to listen. She's confused and distressed by her predicament, and there's a caveman hauling her back to his cavehome. 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Now, there are over 10 million ofher books in print worldwide. It took several attempts before she sold herfirst book in 1987 and the delight of seeing that first book for sale in thelocal newsagents has never been forgotten. She started writing again when she was athome with her first child. Lynne married after she completed adegree at Edinburgh University. At 15, she wrote her firstbook, but it was rejected everywhere. ![]() Lynne first met her husband when she was 14. She learnt to read at the age of 3, and haven't stopped since then. She grew up in a seaside village with herbrother. ![]() She has livedin Northern Ireland all her life. Lynne Graham was born on Jof Irish-Scottish parentage. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() |