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Esther Freud

The Sea House

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  • b5129661440has quoted7 years ago
    It was almost a relief to get on the little train that left from Steerborough, to stop looking and searching, and finally allow himself to relax.
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    ‘Gertrude’ – the words, more than usual, made a hollow echo in his head – ‘was it Kaethe’s idea that you ask me to come?’ Gertrude looked at him for a moment. Of course. Of course it was Kaethe who’d asked her, made her promise right before the end. ‘No,’ she said, hoping it would help him. She smiled. ‘It was all my own plan.’
  • b5129661440has quoted7 years ago
    Lily stood for a long time in the phone box, her nose pressed against the pane. She knew it was a mistake not to have left a message and now she didn’t have any more change.
  • b5244679422has quoted7 years ago
    Gertrude’ – the words, more than usual, made a hollow echo in his head – ‘was it Kaethe’s idea that you ask me to come?’
  • b5244679422has quoted7 years ago
    But the truth was he was afraid of starting. It was so long since he’d painted anything at all
  • b5244679422has quoted7 years ago
    Folded into this first letter, dated 1931
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    Vast and blue and breathless, stretching to the edges of the world.
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    The sea was rolling just behind the skyline, calling her, magnetic in its roar
  • b5244679422has quoted7 years ago
    handful of Lehmann’s letters and set them on the table in a little time-worn pile. Letters from the architect Klaus Lehmann, written over twenty years, and collected by his wife. Where are her letters?
  • b5244679422has quoted7 years ago
    Upstairs there was a large bedroom, with a window that overlooked the Green, and there on the horizon, strangely high like a child’s drawing, sat a deep blue stripe of sea.
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