Meanwhile, Kate Mulvaney watched her lover go through the departure gate at the airport, turned round and made for the tube station, looking very sombre. She thought he would come back to her, but she couldn’t be sure.
Back at the Kopses’ Joe Coverdale passed the basement window, crouched down, wondered at the people there, the empty bottles of champagne on the table – and three more in a plastic bucket on the floor, he noted – observed the black and white cat, much bigger, also on the table, dipping its paw in a brown jug, bringing it out wet with milk, licking off the milk and repeating the process, noticed the dingy figure of Clancy Goldstein on the step, ringing the doorbell, with a great big bunch of roses in his hand.
Joe shook his head in bafflement and moved on down the pavement, going home.
A Note on the Author
HILARY BAILEY was born in 1936 and was educated at thirteen schools before attending Newnham College, Cambridge. Married with children, she entered the strange, uneasy world of ’60s science fiction, writing some twenty tales of imagination which were published in Britain, the USA, France and Germany. She has edited the magazine New Worlds and has regularly reviewed modern fiction for the Guardian. Her first novel was published in 1975 and she has since written twelve novels and a short biography. She lives in Ladbroke Grove, London.
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After the Cabaret
All the Days of My Life
As Time Goes By
A Stranger to Herself
Cassandra
Connections
Elizabeth and Lily
Fifty-First State
Hannie Richards
In Search of Love, Money and Revenge
Mrs Rochester
Polly Put the Kettle On
Mrs Mulvaney
The Cry from Street to Street
Miles and Flora
The Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes
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First published in Great Britain 1988 by Constable and Company Ltd.
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