Unholy Dying
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“And, no, you mustn’t be overwhelming, mustn’t be too much around, when what he or she needs is space. It’s a good thing that you’ll have a bit of academic work to do, if things work out.”
“Maybe. Actually, I’m reconsidering that. I’m thinking of writing a book.”
“Oh, good. But no money in that.”
“A novel.”
Charlie’s mouth fell open.
“A novel! For Christ’s sake! Hasn’t your father put you off that?”
“My father writes rotten novels. Crap. Mine is going to be a good one. Maybe there will be more than one. There certainly will be more than one child. Now, getting down to the actual wedding . . .”
Later that night Charlie awoke from a very strange dream indeed, in which he and Felicity and the several children she had foreseen were out on a picnic and the whole thing was like a cozy advertisement of pretty people in Pre-Raphaelite green fields being gooily happy together with cows looking benevolently on. Sleepily Charlie felt across the bed and settled his hand on Felicity’s stomach, wondering if he could feel the little one’s presence yet. He decided he couldn’t, but was pleased in the knowledge that it was there.
“You’re going to have to get used to more reality than that,” he said. “Life’s not going to be all green fields and cows, little him or her.”
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The Case of the Missing Brontë
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barnard, Robert.
Unholy dying/Robert Barnard.
p. cm.
1. England, Northern—Fiction. 2. Leeds (England)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6052.A665 U54 2001
823'.914—dc21
00–047101
ISBN 13: 978-1-4391-5736-7 ISBN 10: 1-4391-5736-7
ISBN 13: 978-1-4767-3790-4 (eBook)