The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Lucinda Riley
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- Genre: Women’s Historical Fiction
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I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my
father had died, I thought to myself as I stared out of the window and saw
the complete blackness of night. Intermittently below me, there were small
clusters of twinkling lights indicating human habitation, each light
containing a life, a family, a set of friends . . .
None of which I felt I had any longer.
It was almost like seeing the world upside down, because the lights
below the plane resembled less brilliant facsimiles of the stars above me.
This reminded me of the fact that one of my tutors at art college had once
told me that I painted as if I couldn’t see what was in front of me. He was
right. I couldn’t. The pictures appeared in my mind, not in reality. Often,
they didn’t take animal, mineral or even human form, but the images were
strong, and I always felt compelled to follow them through.
Like that great pile of junk I’d collected from scrapyards around London
and housed in my studio at the apartment. I had spent weeks trying to work
out exactly how all the pieces should be placed together. It was like
working on a giant Rubik’s Cube, though the raw ingredients comprised of
a smelly oil can, an old Guy Fawkes scarecrow, a tyre and a rusting metal
pickaxe. I’d constantly moved the bits into place, happy right up until I
added that last vital piece, which always – wherever I put it – seemed to
ruin the entire installation.
I laid my hot brow against the cool Perspex of the window, which was all
that separated me and everyone else on the plane from asphyxiation and
certain death.
We are so vulnerable . . .
No, CeCe, I cautioned myself harshly as panic rose inside me, you can do
this without her, you really can.
I forced my thoughts back to Pa Salt, because given my ingrained fear of
flying, thinking about the moment I heard he’d died was – in a weird way –
comforting. If the worst happened and the plane dropped from the sky,
killing us all, at least he might be there on the other side, waiting for me.
He’d already made the journey up there, after all. And he’d made it alone,
as we all did.
I’d been pulling on my jeans when the call had come from my younger
sister Tiggy, telling me that Pa Salt was dead. Looking back now, I was
pretty sure that none of what she said really sank in. All I could think of
was how I’d tell Star, who had adored our father. I knew she would be
totally devastated.
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