And there was Jack. She was seeing him tonight. They were going to the cinema then sharing a take-away.
‘The New Year’s looking good,’ she said as she angled her head to study the canvas. ‘And so’s this painting.’
Only when the cold began to seep into her bones did Rose pack up. She drove home and had a bath, sprayed her wrists with perfume and waited for Jack Pearce to come and collect her.
Author biography
JANIE BOLITHO was born in Falmouth, Cornwall. She enjoyed a variety of careers – psychiatric nurse, debt collector, working for a tour operator, a book-maker’s clerk – before becoming a full-time writer. She passed away in 2002.
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First published in 2001.
Copyright © 2001 by JANIE BOLITHO
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ISBN 978–0–7490–1800–9