Sunny Garden

   

    She doesn't cancel lunch. She turns up when I've killed more time, got to the cafe early, found a shady table, bought coffee and read half of another newspaper.
    Hey, she says, and makes me look up. She smiles and pushes her sunglasses back on her head. I thought I'd go all out with the regular clothes. I even wore a dress. (p.88)

   

    We drive, I sing, the Bean chews away at the wet washer. The CD ends, I talk. About the heat, about summer and winter, temporarily about the long-term implications of climate change, about traffic lights, about Ash's house where the lights are all off, about the rowing sheds at uni, about the City Cat ferry stop, the route I run every weekday, about the sugarcane farm that was here in this pocket of the river before they built the campus. About her mother. (p. 120)

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