A SUMMER TO REMEMBER (THE SUNRISE COAST #9) BY ELISE DARCY – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Elise Darcy
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- Genre: Contemporary romance
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Lorna closed the front door after her last music lesson. She’d stood at the
front door of her Oxford home, watching her young student, Olive, walk
down the short front garden path towards her mum, who was waiting in her
car. She’d given a little wave before retreating inside and closing the door.
Olive would not be returning as a student; she was not interested in
continuing her lessons. She reminded Lorna of her own daughter at that
age.
Lorna smiled. Like Olive, she was also taking a break from lessons,
although not indefinitely. She’d decided that she was taking a sabbatical
from teaching. She’d organised the break both from her job teaching music
in a high school and from her private tutoring commitments. The only
person who didn’t know yet was her husband.
Lorna stood for a moment, still smiling, thinking about her plans. She
would be turning forty soon, at the end of October. Although she had
intended to spend the long summer holiday doing something special to
celebrate prior to her birthday, that plan had been put on hold. Her daughter,
Briony, had graduated, and Lorna had found herself hanging on, putting her
only child first, as always, waiting to attend Briony’s graduation. Briony
had achieved a first-class honours degree in biology and was on her way to
achieve her dream of becoming a marine biologist, even though Lorna had
tried to discourage her at every turn.
Lorna wished that Briony hadn’t had such a fascination with the sea and
marine life. Her smile slipped. She felt so guilty about not encouraging her
daughter’s passion. It was all because of what had happened in her own
past, which her daughter knew absolutely nothing about – and never would.
She’d made sure of that by cutting off all contact with Briony’s maternal
grandmother.
After putting her own plans on hold to focus on Briony’s graduation,
she’d then hung on to see her daughter off on a trip of a lifetime in the
autumn; she got a coveted place on a research trip to the Galapagos Islands.
Lorna was so proud of her. She knew it would be a wrench for her,
leaving her boyfriend, Freddie, behind to go on her trip, but as Lorna had
said to her, Sometimes in a relationship you just have to put yourself first
for a change.
Lorna was doing that now. Her thoughts turned to Andrew. After meeting
him at university, starting a family while they were still undergraduate
students, and then spending twenty-two years with him, she felt it was
about time she put herself first for a change.
Her daughter had finally flown the nest. On her return from the trip,
she’d be moving in with Freddie. He had mentioned their plans to her, but it
had been the first she’d heard of it. She was surprised that Briony hadn’t
told her.
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