Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Alice Feeney
- Language: English
- Genre: Thriller / Suspense
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I was born with a broken heart.
The day I arrived into this lonely little world was also the first time I
died. Nobody spotted the heart condition back then. Things weren’t as
sophisticated in 1975 as they might be now, and my blue coloring was
blamed on my traumatic birth.
I was a breech baby, to complicate matters
further. The weary doctor told my father to choose between me or my
mother, explaining apologetically, and with just a hint of impatience, that he
could only save one of us. My father, after a brief hesitation he would spend
the rest of his life paying for, chose his wife. But the midwife persuaded me
to breathe—against all their odds and my better judgment—and a hospital
room full of strangers smiled when I started to cry. Everyone except for my
mother. She wouldn’t even look at me.
My mother had wanted a son. She already had two daughters when I
was born, and chose to name us all after flowers. My eldest sister is called
Rose, which turned out to be strangely appropriate as she is beautiful but
not without thorns. Next to arrive, but still four years ahead of me, was Lily.
The middle child in our floral family is pale, and pretty, and poisonous to
some. My mother refused to name me at all for a while, but when the time
came, I was christened Daisy.
She is a woman who only ever has a plan A,
so none of us were given the contingency of a middle name. There were
plenty of other—better—options, but she chose to name me after a flower
that often gets picked, trampled on, or made into chains. A mother’s least
favorite child always knows that’s what they are.
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