Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Freya Sampson
- Language: English
- Genre: Friendship Fiction
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DOROTHY
Years later, when the residents of Shelley House looked back on the
extraordinary events of that long, turbulent summer, they would disagree on
how it all began. Tomasz in flat five said it started the day the letters
arrived: six innocuous-looking brown envelopes that fell through the
communal letterbox one Wednesday morning in May. Omar in flat three
claimed the problems came a few weeks later when an ambulance pulled up
in front of the building, its siren wailing, and the body was loaded into the
back. And Gloria from flat six said her astrologer had told her way back in
January there would be drama and destruction in her near future (and, more
importantly, that she’d be engaged by Christmas).
But for Dorothy Darling, flat two, there was never any question of when
the trouble began. She could pinpoint the exact moment when everything
changed: the single flap of a butterfly’s wing that would eventually lead to
the tornado that engulfed them all.
It was the day the girl with pink hair arrived at Shelley House.
• • •
That morning had started out like any other. Dorothy was woken at six
thirty by thumping from the flat overhead. She lay in bed for several
minutes, her eyes squeezed shut as she chased the last shadows of her
dream. When she could put it off no longer, she rose, her knees clicking
obstinately as she moved through to the bathroom to perform her morning
ablutions. In the kitchen, Dorothy lit the stove with a match and did her
morning stretches while she waited for an egg to boil and her pot of English
breakfast tea to steep. Once they were ready, she carried a tray through to
the drawing room, where she consumed breakfast sitting at a card table in
the bay window. So far, so normal.
As she ate, Dorothy observed her neighbors depart the building. There
was the tall, ferocious man from flat five, accompanied by his equally
ferocious, pavement-fouling dog. Next came the pretty-if-only-she’d-stopscowling teenager from flat three, staring at her phone and pointedly
ignoring her father, who followed her carrying a battered briefcase under
one arm and an overflowing box of recycling under the other. As he
emptied the contents into the communal bins, a tin can missed the deposit
and rolled onto the pavement. The man hurried off after his daughter,
oblivious. Dorothy reached for the diary and pencil she kept near at all
times.
7:48 a.m. O.S. (3) Erroneous rubbish disposal.
Once the morning rush hour had passed, Dorothy washed up her
crockery, dressed, brushed her long silver hair, and put on her string of
pearls. She was back at the window by eight fifty, just in time to see the
redheaded woman from flat six departing hand-in-hand with her current
paramour, a tall, bovine man in a cheap leather jacket. After that there was a
lull and Dorothy changed the beds and dusted the picture frames and objets
on the mantelpiece, accompanied by Wagner’s Götterdämmerung to block
out the din from the flat above.
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