Where You Left Us by Rhiannon Wilde EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Rhiannon Wilde
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Mental Illness
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Cinnamon Prince is running away from home.
Not properly, or for good – just literally running, along the scraggy stretch
of beach below her family’s house.
The water is blue as far as her eyes can see, as much as her chest can hold
when she breathes it in. She does this a lot – running. She likes her brain
best when it goes almost quiet. There’s not as much blue in the sky as she’d
like today though, not as much as she needs. White clouds scud across her
vision. Clouds that, if she squints, look like:
Her dad.
Uni offers.
Her sister.
And all the stuff left behind by her (dead) grandmother,
if she stares for too long.
Cinnamon inhales deeper and runs until the clouds start to float hazily
away. If all the thoughts she’s imagined as clouds or whatever her free
mindfulness app tells her to envision ever became corporeal, this sky would
be as full of garbage as the Pacific Ocean.
Halcyon House looms over her the whole run back, all white with a steepgabled roof and rows of windows like empty eye sockets. Its faded face
peers towards the edge of the cliff, casting soft shadows over the sand and
sea. Cinnamon used to think that Halcyon stretched towards the ocean the
way plants do the sun. Or as though determined to drown itself and
everyone in it.
The Prince family have lived in this tumbledown residence for
generations. There have been many of them – Princes – over the years
who’ve grown up here and moved on. But something always pulls them
back.
Home.
Notorious is one of the words locals use to describe the house and its
occupants. Mostly because the word can be imbued with more nastiness
than infamous. They are though, Cinnamon supposes, famous. At least, her
dad is. Was.
Her dad’s band, the Princelings, were an almost-big deal in the nineties
music scene. Something about the tone (dark and dulcet) and Plathic
metaphors gifted Ian Prince (poet and lead singer) with, among other
things: three number-one albums, a cluster of intense fans, a wife (and then
two daughters).
For a while.
Ian was the most famous Prince since Arthur, who built the house years
and years ago after making a fortune selling wine. But fame didn’t stop the
thing that was fuelling him from also eating him. The Muse. The moods.
They existed as a ragtag pair until one of them won.
This is why Cinnamon is stuck in this town where people are afraid of her
family, nineteen and sans life direction with sand in her socks, listening to
her dad singing in her headphones because he won’t talk to her. Because of
him, because the rest of her family is gone, because someone had to take
some goddamn responsibility.
At least, that’s why she thinks she’s still here.
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