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Back The Lollipop Shoes
Chapters (96)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Book
  3. The Lollipop Shoes
  4. Dedication
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. PART ONE
  7. 1
  8. 2
  9. 3
  10. 4
  11. 5
  12. PART TWO
  13. 1
  14. 2
  15. 3
  16. 4
  17. 5
  18. 6
  19. 7
  20. 8
  21. PART THREE
  22. 1
  23. 2
  24. 3
  25. 4
  26. 5
  27. 6
  28. PART FOUR
  29. 1
  30. 2
  31. 3
  32. 4
  33. 5
  34. 6
  35. 7
  36. 8
  37. 9
  38. PART FIVE
  39. 1
  40. 2
  41. 3
  42. 4
  43. 5
  44. 6
  45. 7
  46. 8
  47. 9
  48. 10
  49. 11
  50. 12
  51. PART SIX
  52. 1
  53. 2
  54. 3
  55. 4
  56. 5
  57. 6
  58. 7
  59. 8
  60. 9
  61. 10
  62. 11
  63. 12
  64. PART SEVEN
  65. 1
  66. 2
  67. 3
  68. 4
  69. 5
  70. 6
  71. 7
  72. 8
  73. 9
  74. PART EIGHT
  75. 1
  76. 2
  77. 3
  78. 4
  79. 5
  80. 6
  81. 7
  82. 8
  83. 9
  84. 10
  85. 11
  86. 12
  87. 13
  88. 14
  89. 15
  90. 16
  91. 17
  92. 18
  93. 19
  94. Epilogue
  95. About the Author
  96. Also by Joanne Harris

Well, I knew he wouldn’t be easy, but this was getting ridiculous. I allowed an edge to enter my voice. ‘Why? Because I’m her friend, and I care what happens to her and the kids. And if you’d just stop thinking about your wounded feelings for a minute, you’d see why she needs some time to think. I mean, where have you been for the past four years? And how does she know you won’t take off again? Thierry isn’t perfect, of course, but he’s here, and he’s dependable, which is more than can be said of you.’

Some folk respond better to abrasiveness than charm. Roux is obviously one of these, because he sounded more civil then than at any other time he’d spoken to me.

‘I see,’ he said. ‘I’m sorry, Zozie.’

‘So you’ll do as I say? Otherwise, there’s no point in me even trying to help you.’

He nodded.

‘You mean it?’

‘Yeah.’

I gave a sigh. The hard part was done.

A pity, in a way, I thought. In spite of everything, I find him rather attractive. But for every favour the gods bestow, there has to be a sacrifice. And of course, by the end of the month I’ll be asking for a significant favour . . .

7

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Wednesday, 5th December

SUZE WAS BACK again today. Wearing a beanie hat instead of that scarf and trying to make up for lost time. Heads together with Chantal at lunch, and after that it was all out with the lame comments and the where’s your boyfriend and the stupid Annie’s It games.

Not that there’s anything remotely fun about that any more. Now it’s not just halfway mean: it’s mean all the way, with Sandrine and Chantal telling everybody about last week’s visit to the shop, making it sound like a cross between a hippie den and a junk yard, and laughing like crazy at everything.

To make it worse, Jean-Loup was ill, and I was back to being It on my own. Not that I care about that, of course. But it isn’t fair; we’ve worked so hard, Maman and Zozie and Rosette and me – and now there’s Chantal and Co. making us sound like a bunch of losers.

Normally I wouldn’t have cared. But things are getting so much better for us, with Zozie moving in with us, and business so good, and the shop full of customers every day, and Roux coming back like that, out of the blue—