Delilah knows he's watching her too and she likes the look of him, but perhaps life is too complicated already. Very unusual, they whisper.Īcross the driveway lives a man who never goes out. They don't like it when she plants a garden out front - orange red Carpinus caroliniana and silvery blue hosta. The neighbours gossip as they watch her clean, her black hair tied back in a white rubber band. On an East Coast island, full of tall pine moaning with sea gusts, Delilah moves into a cottage by the shore. The Driveaway Has Two Sides by Sara Marchant Set in 1970's communist Romania, this novella-in-flash draws upon magic realism to weave a tale of everyday troubles, that can't be put down. As the strain takes its toll on their marriage, Alina turns to her aunt for help - the wife of a communist leader and a secret practitioner of the old folk ways. When Alina's brother-in-law defects to the West, she and her husband become persons of interest to the secret services, causing both of their careers to come grinding to a halt. There are sniggers behind closed doors - how can a surgeon be fat, they wisper when mistakes are made and his old adversary Nash steps in to take advantage, Anderton knows that things are coming to a head. His wife, meanwhile, has turned to drink. Tormented by a toxic marriage and haunted by past mistakes, Anderton has been eating to forget. But behind the successful facade all is not well. Nicholas Anderton is a highly respected neurosurgeon at the top of his field.
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