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2018/30: The Girl Next Door -- Ruth Rendell
Monday, July 16th, 2018 10:39 pm2018/30: The Girl Next Door -- Ruth Rendell
The skeletal remains of two hands, one a man's and one a woman's, are found in a buried tin box. They date from the Second World War, and news of their discovery stir childhood memories in the people who grew up playing in the tunnels beneath the leafy suburb of Theydon Bois. The protagonists, friends and playmates during the war, are in their seventies or eighties now. Their relationships have grown and changed with them -- but the distant world in which they grew up comes vividly to life as memories resurface. ( no spoilers )
‘I just asked if you thought we’d led a dull life.’
‘Well, I don’t think so. I’d have said we’ve had a happy life, not very adventurous, but those sort of lives are full of trouble. We haven’t committed adultery or gone in for domestic violence or anything like that. We’ve brought up our children decently. What’s wrong with that?’
‘Nothing,’ he said, but he thought, ‘Everything.’ [p. 35]
The skeletal remains of two hands, one a man's and one a woman's, are found in a buried tin box. They date from the Second World War, and news of their discovery stir childhood memories in the people who grew up playing in the tunnels beneath the leafy suburb of Theydon Bois. The protagonists, friends and playmates during the war, are in their seventies or eighties now. Their relationships have grown and changed with them -- but the distant world in which they grew up comes vividly to life as memories resurface. ( no spoilers )
