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Chapters (30)
  1. Title Page
  2. CONTENTS
  3. GROWN UPS
  4. Chapter 1
  5. Chapter 2
  6. Chapter 3
  7. Chapter 4
  8. Chapter 5
  9. Chapter 6
  10. Chapter 7
  11. Chapter 8
  12. Chapter 9
  13. Chapter 10
  14. Chapter 11
  15. Chapter 12
  16. Chapter 13
  17. Chapter 14
  18. Chapter 15
  19. Chapter 16
  20. Chapter 17
  21. Chapter 18
  22. Chapter 19
  23. Chapter 20
  24. Chapter 21
  25. Chapter 22
  26. Chapter 23
  27. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
  28. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  29. AVAILABLE AND COMING SOONFROM PUSHKIN PRESS
  30. Copyright

‘And that was that,’ Mum says, shaking her hands. ‘Gosh, it always feels so quiet when people leave.’

‘A little coffee, maybe?’ Stein suggests, patting her shoulder.

I lie down on the sofa and browse the cabin’s guest book, the others wrote in it before leaving. Olea has drawn herself holding two large fish with a wide, slightly wonky stroke of a smile, and beneath it Marthe has written half a page. I recognise her handwriting from our teenage years, very proper and slightly childish, I rarely ever see it these days. ‘Thanks for a lovely few days,’ she’s written, then a bit about the weather, up-and-down for the first few days with a fair bit of rain, but better after that. There have been trips to the town along the coast for ice cream and a few hikes to Heia, too, lots of ticks this year, they all had 150to check themselves thoroughly, Olea caught her first ever fish and Marthe took the big boat out, it’s never too late to learn! ‘We celebrated Mum’s 65th birthday with prawns and a delicious cake, and Ida joined us for a few days, too,’ she writes towards the end. ‘We’ve had a lovely holiday, and now it’s back to normality for us.’