Good Sisters by Sinéad Moriarty EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sinéad Moriarty
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Julie
I sat on the edge of the bath, blocking out the chaos outside. I needed space.
I was not ready for this. Then again, are you ever ready to bury your
mother?
I dabbed my eyes with another lump of toilet paper, rubbing off the
make-up I had applied five times.
My new funeral shoes were already pinching my toes. I should never
have let Sophie talk me into buying them. They were too high. My younger
sister was all about suffering for fashion, but at forty-nine years of age I
craved comfort and lived in trainers or flats.
Louise had told me which of my black dresses was appropriate for our
mother’s funeral. As the eldest, Louise always seemed to know what to do
in every circumstance, so we all just obeyed her. She was smarter than the
rest of us put together and impossible to argue with, so we tended simply to
follow her directions.
I could hear the triplets slagging each other and Harry shouting at them to
‘bloody well behave today’.
Then Tom piped up. ‘Come on, guys, it’s a really sad day for Mum. She
loved Granny.’
Even at just turned eleven years old, my ‘baby’, Tom, was still sweet and
compliant. I knew his hormones would kick in soon and my mere existence
would become mortifying to him, so I cherished him all the more.
To be fair, the triplets had tried to be sympathetic about Mum dying.
Liam had hugged me for the first time in two years, which, at fifteen, was a
big deal for him. Luke had made me a cup of coffee using unblended coffee
beans that I’d almost choked on, but it was a sweet gesture. Leo had tried to
distract me by telling me all of the messing they had got up to in school
without getting caught, which only served to raise my anxiety levels
through the roof: I’m permanently convinced they’re going to be expelled
from their posh school.
Harry was doing his best to be kind, of course, but his fussing about was
getting on my nerves.
The only people who totally understood how I was feeling were my
sisters and my brother. I just wanted to be with them and Dad. Only we five
could understand the pain of losing Mum so quickly.
One minute she was fine, then she had a pain in her back, then she was
having chemo, then she died. Seven weeks from the day she went to see her
GP to the day she died. It felt like any minute we’d be called back to the
hospital and told it was a crazy, stupid mistake and Mum would be standing
there, smiling, herself again.
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