Now aged and grieving for his missing wife, he has taken a tumble from a seafront after believing he had seen her walk past in the street. No adequate explanation is ever offered for this phenomenon, although Richard tries, but it crops up throughout the novel as a symbol of the things we cannot know, raining down on us at unexpected moments.įlora’s beloved father is a writer called Gil Coleman, famous for a scandalous novel. Later, Flora rushes home after a phone call from her sister saying that their father is in hospital, and as she drives from a ferry in the dark and through pouring rain, baby mackerel rain down from a nearby rock.
As in her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, it’s the sharp eye for detail, sometimes bizarre, that makes her writing stand out. “Flora picked up a bra, tried to hook it together, missed the catches, tried again … ” It’s typical of Fuller’s insight that this small, practical action, experienced daily by bra-wearing women the world over, should be noted in the middle of a scene in which Richard has just discovered something devastating about Flora’s past. I n the early pages of Claire Fuller’s second novel, the main character Flora is attempting to get dressed in a hurry while her boyfriend Richard observes.
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